🔄From the archive: Compared to other primates, human slumber is exceptionally short. Did it once give us an evolutionary advantage?
,” Samson suggests that our ancestors mitigated the risk of deep sleep by sleeping in large groups with at least one person on guard.
The protection gained from sleeping socially allowed early humans to get a better night’s rest. As anyone who has dealt with a sleep-deprived child knows, better sleep makes us more amenable and facilitates social interaction. Building stronger relationships may have fostered more cooperative sleeping groups and improved sleep, in a soporific feedback loop.
and developing friendships. The extra time spent transmitting cultural information and strengthening social ties would have givenHints of the social sleeping behavior of our ancestors can be seen in our modern sleep patterns. A 2011 study found that people who are lonelythan those who are more socially connected, an effect the authors attribute to a lack of security.
Only over the past few decades have anthropologists been able to take sleep studies out of the lab and into the field, thanks to the development of small
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