ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025
Are humans facing a sleep epidemic or enlightenment? Large-scale, industrial societies exhibit long, efficient sleep yet weak circadian function.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- The Co-Evolution of Sleep and Diet: Toward an Emerging Framework of Evolutionary Chrononutrition in Circadian-Metabolic Health.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Modern Times: Longitudinal Study of Toba/Qom Communities Reveals Delay and Shortening of Sleep in Real-Time Across Electrification.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Seasonal timing and interindividual differences in shiftwork adaptation.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Local versus global sleep organization and the quest to determine sleep function.Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms · 2025Article
- Are humans facing a sleep epidemic or enlightenment? Large-scale, industrial societies exhibit long, efficient sleep yet weak circadian function.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared sleep-related problems to be a public health epidemic. With the advent of biometric sleep tracking technology taking the sleep lab into the field, the study of human sleep is now global, and these new datasets show contrasting findings. Previous reports suggest sleep in small-scale, non-industrial societies to be short and fragmented yet characterized by greater circadian rhythmicity. However, the role of circadian rhythm indicators in understanding global variations in human sleep patterns remains unclear. We examine population-level sleep studies (
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