Abstract
A direct comparison of temporal organization of sleep in man and in three species of monkeys (Chimpanzee, Baboon Papio Papio and Rhesus Monkey Macacca Mulatta) is attempted. General trends of sleep stages were calculated by fitting orthogonal polynomials to the cumulated occurrences of sleep stages. In spite of methodological differences in the collection of data in different laboratories, it is clear that sleep in these three species has close similarities. The temporal organization of NREM sleep stages is much the same, with only quantitative differences. Human sleep is specially characterized by the greater curvature of the general trend of paradoxical sleep, indicating a unique ability to enhance progressively the production of this stage toward the end of the night. This tendency also exists in the monkeys, but is far less marked.
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