On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...
The familiar labels "night owl" and "early bird," long used in sleep research, don't fully capture the diversity of human ...
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The Eight-Hour Sleep Is a Modern Invention. Your Ancestors Had a “First” and “Second” Sleep. What Changed?
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply ...
As researchers revisit diaries, court records, medical texts, and modern sleep experiments, a more complicated picture of human rest is emerging. I find that the story of first and second sleep is not ...
Lewis Mattin is affiliated with The Physiological Society, The Society for Endocrinology, In2Science & UKRI funded Ageing and Nutrient Sensing Network. Sleep is one of the essential physiological ...
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