People used to wake up in the middle of the night for a couple of hours then go back to sleep:
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoi’m pretty confident it’s an evolutionary adaption to ensure there are people in the tribe that are wide awake when others are sleeping, to keep an eye on things.
same thing with neurodivergence, sexualities, and left-handedness; it’s all stuff that’s been boosting our survival as a species when a portion of the population has those differences.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yuri@pawb.social 2 months ago
The next phase of human evolution is here, and it’s gay, autistic, left handed, and sleeping at odd hours. The rest of humanity has yet to realize the end of their epoch is nigh.