Rather than being a precursor to sleep, yawning is designed to keep us awake, say US researchers. But why does seeing someone else yawn make you to do the same?
Yawning is an involuntary action that everyone does. We start before we are born and most creatures on the planet do it - even snakes and fish.
New research suggests rather than being a precursor to sleep, the purpose of yawning is to cool the brain so it operates more efficiently and keeps you awake.
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The average yawn lasts six seconds.
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The theory could explain a puzzling question about subconscious human behaviour - why many of us yawn when we see or hear another person doing it, or even read about it or even just think about it?
Comment: Who promotes and who profits from women's self-destructive eating disorders?
The reader might want to read Naomi Wolf's book, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, to understand the war waged by patriarchy/psychopathy against women. In the author's own words: