Do Chimps Really Have Apnea Symptoms?

February 5th, 2010 by admin

The other day I was watching this really weird TV show. They were talking about sleep apnea in chimpanzees. At first I thought it was a nature show, like the one’s where they teach chimps to use sign language, but it was a medical show, and they were showing that apnea symptoms are very common between humans and primates. This suggests that sleep apnea is a evolutionary trait that served a purpose in our evolutionary past. Maybe it made us wake up quickly if there was a predator or something, or some caveman from another tribe was sneaking into our cave at night to steal our stuff. Nevertheless, it was a very interesting TV show.

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