How did early hominids get sleep when its so hard for people in modern times to sleep.

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By ancestors I mean like “cavemen” in a sense. If they had to sleep in caves surrounded by a million different noises, predators, insects, and sleeping on primitive beds – I just cant see them getting any good night rests.

In today’s world sometimes we cant sleep even with great pillows, mattresses, soothing sounds, sleep aid medicine, etc. For some even the tiniest noise or light wakes them up. Thanks for and whatever the reason early hominids must have been pretty hardcore.

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You’re assuming they did get a good night’s rest. It’s entirely possible they didn’t, really. Without any real basis for comparison, how would they know what a ‘good night’s rest’ even was?

But they also got a lot more activity than we do, on average. And they lived in an environment with way less artificial light. And they consumed fewer calories than we do.

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