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The Eight-Hour Sleep Is a Modern Invention. Your Ancestors Had a “First” and “Second” Sleep. What Changed?

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply ...
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I ditched eight hours sleep a night – I’m less tired and hungry

But sleep therapist Heather Darwal-Smith says we’ve got it all wrong. “It’s a complete myth,” she tells The i Paper. “Many ...