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Elizabeth Preston, and ,Knowable Magazine

You get less sleep than a chimp — and there's an evolutionary reason why


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 arise in the morning, they haven’t gotten any more hours of sleep than a typical Western city-dweller who stayed up doom-scrolling on their smartphone.

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