Anthropology Entry 1

It is a known fact that almost all animals need sleep to function properly. We tend to think as sleep as a time where the mind shuts down, however sleep is actually an active period in which essential restoration, strengthening and processing occurs. While we sleep, experiences throughout the day solidify as memories. Our ancestors used sleep as a way to learn from mistakes and experiences and improve the way the behave the next time they are in that situation as we still do to this day. Because early humans could learn from their mistakes it helped to advance evolution to modern homo-sapiens. The body requires sleep to grow muscle, create hormones and repair damaged tissues. This is why it is important for young adults who are still developing to get 8-10 hours of sleep per day.