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1 sty 2022 · Starting with ancient history, and moving through middle ages, the age of enlightenment, and the modern era, we examine historical evidence of typical sleep schedules during each period along with sleep arrangements and beddings.
28 lip 2016 · Sleep is essential to cognitive function and health in humans, yet the ultimate reasons for sleep—i.e. ‘why’ sleep evolved—remain mysterious. We integrate findings from human sleep studies, the ethnographic record, and the ecology and evolution of mammalian sleep to better understand sleep along the human lineage and in the modern world.
15 lip 2016 · The author noticed a great variety in the pattern of sleepiness (sleepiness in short intervals, periodic sleep episodes, continuous sleepiness) and its duration (days, months, even years), combined with a characteristic inability to awaken the person from pathological sleep.
1 paź 2021 · Historical Timeline of Human Sleep. Use this interactive timeline to trace the path of our approach to and understanding of sleep throughout human history. Select a time period to start and click on the colored boxes for additional information.
Discovering the true evolutionary function of sleep, i.e. the reason sleep adds to the fitness of an organism, would explain ‘Why we sleep.’ I propose a subtle yet profound explanation to the question of why we and every animal species on earth sleep.
The history of sleep affords important new perspectives not only on everyday life in earlier centuries but also on the underlying origins of contemporary sleep disorders, including middle-of-the-night insomnia.
The sleep patterns of humans living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle have been analysed as a means to determine the patterns of human sleep in environments similar to those in which humans evolved—ie, in times before the changes in living conditions brought about by industrial society.
