Wild baboons sacrifice sleep to meet pressing demands - Science Daily

Sleep study on a troop of wild baboons reveals that sacrificing sleep to meet pressing demands is common -- and might even be part of our evolutionary history.

The first study ever to examine sleeping behavior in a wild group of primates has challenged a central tenet of sleep science: that we must make up for lost sleep. Even after sleeping poorly, wild ba… [+5272 chars]

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