Animals
Humans Sleep Less Than Primates--But We Do That Efficiently?
While humans sleep less than many of our close relatives among the primates, we seem to be doing so much more efficiently and including more rapid-eye movement, or REM--the high-quality sleep period. A new study looks at this and why that might be.
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