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by thesuitonym 13 days ago
Nearly all predators spend large portions of their day sleeping, why would humans have been different?
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Well that's a purely intellectual question, given that empirical data on human hunter gatherers.

But I'd guess it's because (1) humans aren't purely predators, we're have a mixed diet with plants too, and (2) humans hint in a fundamentally different way to most predators, by chasing their prey to exhaustion over several hours rather than outrunning them over a few minutes.

Bears sleep about 7-8 hours/day, similar to humans.