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Do octopuses dream? Neural activity resembles human sleep stages

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The Eccentric Evolution of Sleep

octopuses have the active sleep where there's a lot going on in the brain and the quiet sleep where things are a bit more placid. The range of similarities that we observe, I think, suggests that this is an example of convergent evolution. And it could mean that these two stages of sleep and large brains and complex behavior has only evolved twice in the vertebrates and in the cephalopods.

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