People in industrial societies get more sleep than hunter-gatherers

Technology may be wrongly blamed for poor sleep Cavan Images/Getty Images Much has been written about how modern lifestyles mean we are no longer getting enough sleepunlike our ancestors who lived in less technologically advanced times. But an analysis of 54 sleep studies conducted around the world has found that people in small, non-industrialised societies … Read more

Hunter-gatherers get less sleep than people in industrial societies

Members of the Himba community in Namibia get just 5.5 hours of sleep a night on average Nick Fox / Alamy Much has been written about how modern lifestyles mean we are no longer getting enough sleepunlike our ancestors who lived in less technologically advanced times. But an analysis of 54 sleep studies conducted around … Read more