Surely it happened on accident that animals are heard by predators while they sleep? Because I snore a bit and people have told me such

    • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Lots of traits have no advantage or disadvantage. It’s loosely a consequence of our posture, which does have evolutionary advantages, but with a byproduct of snoring that by itself doesn’t help or hurt (besides being mildly annoying to our kith and kin).