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
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
Wouldn’t the predators then evolve to eat snoring, unaware people?
So, human packs tended to be unusually large for predatory omnivores, with night/morning watches. Most predators would not attack a full pack of H. sapiens unless they had numbers on their side, which few animals would besides a handful of very large packs of Hyena (Both African and Eurasian). A small pack of humans that had fallen on hard times would definitely be at higher risk but snoring in a large human pack wouldn’t really be much of a risk at all. Most things that hunted us, would wait until we spread out foraging or were exploring in small enough numbers that they could overpower our numbers.
Neanderthals moved in small bands. Part of our advantage was that we tended to have bigger packs and relied on safety in numbers.
Right, so snoring probably has no actual advantage, then.
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).
Yes, that’s the point I was trying to lead OC to with my question.
If it didn’t scare them off then maybe. But snoring doesn’t mean unaware. My wife snores but the slightest noise and she’s awake.