
From the Vault: Invention of the Bed
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Sleep and the Origins of Inhumans
It seems very likely to me that it's actually social pressures that were some of the the dominant pressures on early humans. Ye, it also lines up with the old adage, you snooze, you lose, right? They also point out that that deeper sleep might have also been key to the consolidation of skills in question. So the more yo ou're out of bed, the more youare potentially learning new skills. But of course, in order to get the sleep they needed, our ancestors would have needed social and physical security too.
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