Comment on *Yawn*
its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoSolitary animals yawn too. Don’t if they can catch yawns, or how to test it.
Comment on *Yawn*
its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoSolitary animals yawn too. Don’t if they can catch yawns, or how to test it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Supplying oxygen to brain before task, reused in ape for social?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
My entirely uneducated guess would be that its some, very basal, ancient, basically gasping compulsion, that… just never quite fully got patched out by the subsequent tens of millions of years of evolution.
Sort of the behavioral version of vestigal limb, way down at some fundamental nervous system level.