The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Okay, well it turns out if you plot how much REM sleep each of these animals get, the more plastic the animal, like homo sapiens, we've got tons of REM sleep. And by the way, this is mostly in infancy. Infants spend 50% of their time in REM sleep.
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So the animals that are born with extended infies and need to figure out how to do stuff in the world, um they all have much more REM sleep, like eight times more REM sleep than animals that are born essentially mature, like you know, cows and giraffes and zebras and whatever.