On Sun, 31 May 2009, leaking pen wrote: > I wonder what type of sleep schedule our primitive ancestors had.
While in accelerated mode I wondered about this, and "saw" the answer in some detail. Are fever-dreams trustworthy? In "town" mode everybody crawls into their wigwams and sleeps at night, so the society remains synched up. In "individual hunter" mode you might chase down large game for hours, catnapping, even without shooting it, until it gives up. (Impressive big hunter drives it in a wide circle, so it finally walks into the villiage and collapses.) In "being hunted down by invaders" mode, the ones who sleep more will fall behind: a large natural selection force. If some humans needed 8hrs sleep, then a mutant "sleepless" tribe could always run them into the ground like large game. Our ancestors are the ones whose bodies/minds figured out the solution. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
