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Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)

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Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)

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Shutting off your phone and lights early is especially smart. It lets your mind and body transition smoothly into rest mode

I think it makes the biggest difference out of my habits. I kind of picked up on it when I realized that I never struggled to sleep when I went camping out in the woods. My body would instantly fall into sleepiness when it got dark out because I had no artificial light keeping me up as well as no easy access entertainment like TV

In these conditions, your body just knows when to shut down and recharge

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)

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Can you give an example of evolution selecting for parental survival past the maturity of progeny? I’m curious about this because I’ve never heard of a species that has that trait.

I never said it is selecting for parental survival. I was responding to "Evolution can't select for anything that happens significantly past the birth of your progeny." The point is that there many valuable things that parents can pass on after the birth of their children that will increase their chances of success in future generations.

Those are effectively the same thing, I’m not playing semantics. Can you give an example of this happening in nature?
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