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Is snoring seen as a desirable trait during evolution?
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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.