Given that sleep deprivation studies consistently show that short sleep causes
neurocognitive deficits, the effects of insufficient sleep on brain health and cognition are of …

Sleep is important for the physical, social and mental well-being of both children and adults.
Over the years, there has been a general presumption that sleep will inevitably decline with …

Natural cycles of light and darkness govern the timing of most aspects of animal behavior
and physiology. Artificial light at night (ALAN)—a recent and pervasive form of pollution …

Sleep is essential to cognitive function and health in humans, yet the ultimate reasons for
sleep—ie 'why'sleep evolved—remain mysterious. We integrate findings from human sleep …

Sleep is essential for survival, yet it also represents a time of extreme vulnerability to
predation, hostile conspecifics and environmental dangers. To reduce the risks of slee** …

Quilombos are settlements originally founded by Africans and African descendants
(Quilombolas) in remote parts of Brazil to escape slavery. Due to individual histories …

This article provides a novel synthesis of anthropological research on infant sleep, focusing
on work in biological and sociocultural anthropology in the past decade. First, we briefly …

The human sleep pattern is paradoxical. Sleep is vital for optimal physical and cognitive
performance, yet humans sleep the least of all primates. In addition, consolidated and …

The well-established negative health outcomes of sleep deprivation, and the suggestion that
availability of electricity may enable later bed times without compensating sleep extension in …

Objectives Primates vary in their sleep durations and, remarkably, humans sleep the least
per 24‐hr period of the 30 primates that have been studied. Using phylogenetic methods …