The reptilian origin of man.

It is not the first year that I have been developing this topic, half jokingly, half seriously: Man, look, did not originate from monkeys, but from crocodiles, reptiles, in general.

I even published a note dedicated to a man: “A reptile with a small brain surplus.”

And so, today, as often happens, while preparing a modest breakfast for myself, I thought:

And why do people want to sleep after a hearty meal?

I usually don’t feel like it after breakfast, but after lunch, you’re always welcome.

The conventional physiological explanation, which I also gave in response to such a question, is:

Blood rushes to the intensively working organ. A full stomach begins to digest food and blood flows from the brain to the stomach, which is why you want to sleep.

But if such an explanation were true, then any athlete, instead of participating in some competition that requires maximum muscle load, would instead lie down on the carpet or somewhere else and fall asleep sweetly, Because the blood drained from the brain and flowed to intensively working organs – muscles!

And why does breakfast usually not provoke drowsiness?

In general, as it has already become commonplace, the conventional explanation does not explain anything, but only creates the APPEARANCE of an explanation.

Just when I was making breakfast for myself, a thought came to me – the answer to a question I had asked myself.

The crocodile, having swallowed its prey, will go into hibernation of digestion.

The REPTILIAN snake, having swallowed the victim whole, also plunges into a digesting hibernation, which can last a week or more!

And, here, herbivorous animals do not show any such inclination! Why?

Because they pinch the grass and send it into the stomach in SMALL portions, and do not swallow a sheaf of grass or hay at once!

Thus, the condition for the development of drowsiness is a one-time (or short-term) ingestion of a large portion of food.

So our human afternoon drowsiness is NOT DUE TO the pouring of blood, but from a genetically programmed instinct inherited from reptiles. The condition for triggering the instinct is a large one–time portion of ingested food. So we fall asleep like crocodiles and snakes!

 “On the penultimate step of the marble staircase, Rolling sat by the water and, hunched over, looked at the ocean, from where his ancestor came out in the form of a humanoid lizard a hundred million years ago.”

Hyperboloid of engineer Garin, A.Tolstoy

13 X 2024