Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
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#2paywall
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#4The contagious nature of yawning is so weird. It has to be evolutionarily advantageous because it's so wide spread, but it's also non-obvious.
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#5The contagious nature of yawning is so weird. It has to be evolutionarily advantageous because it's so wide spread, but it's also non-obvious.
A trait doesn’t have to be advantageous to persist just non-detrimental.
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#6The contagious nature of yawning is so weird. It has to be evolutionarily advantageous because it's so wide spread, but it's also non-obvious.
just reading the title made me yawn for real.
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#8The contagious nature of yawning is so weird. It has to be evolutionarily advantageous because it's so wide spread, but it's also non-obvious.
I literally yawned as I clicked on this article from my RSS reader. The contagious nature at the mere idea of a yawn is wild.
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#9https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.695005v1
Is that the paper in question?
Re: Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
#10The contagious nature of yawning is so weird. It has to be evolutionarily advantageous because it's so wide spread, but it's also non-obvious.
I literally yawned as I clicked on this article from my RSS reader. The contagious nature at the mere idea of a yawn is wild.
Me too but I also wonder how much I'm influenced by knowing that that is supposed to happen.