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I snore. My wife snores. Our cat snores. Next door鈥檚 dog snores. I鈥檝e heard zoo animals snore. Revealing your position to every predator within earshot when you are vulnerable has got to be a bad idea. But we don鈥檛 snore all the time, so it鈥檚 not an unavoidable activity like breathing. So why hasn鈥檛 evolution eliminated snoring?

Adrian Bowyer, Foxham, Wiltshire, UK

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