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What is the #natural #daily #activitypattern of #Homo #sapiens? And what role does our #social way of #life play in this? Through a comparative study of #primates and extant #human #huntergatherers, D. R. Samson (2026) reconstructs that humans originally led a #cathemeral #lifestyle, meaning they engaged in flexible #sleeppatterns.
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Reference:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103875

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☀️🌙 Oh, the audacity! Did you know your sacred, uninterrupted 8-hour slumber is a modern-day con-job? 😂 Apparently, ancient societies snoozed in polyphasic harmony with the Sun, unlike today's caffeine-addicted, 9-to-5 zombies. Wake up, sheeple! ⏰😴
https://dylan.gr/1775146616 #sleeppatterns #ancientwisdom #polyphasicdreaming #modernlife #wakeupcall #sleeprevolution #HackerNews #ngated