Wild Nights: Sleep and Human Evolution
Event Details
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
5:10 PM - 7:00 PM
City: Oshawa
Trent University Durham
Room: Room 121
Cost: Free
What does how you sleep have to do with human evolution? Our immune strength, working memory, attention, decision-making, and visual-motor performance all depend on sleep. How then could elders’ insomnia and teenagers’ penchant for staying up late have evolved? Find out at this free public lecture by sleep anthropologist Dr. David Samson, whose work has been featured on the BBC, Time, the New York Times, New Scientist, and the CBC. Dr. Samson describes his research using pioneering, non-invasive technology to study sleep across human cultures and primate species to answer evolutionary questions.
Free public lecture taking place on Thursday, November 30, 5:10 p.m. - 7 p.m., Room 121, Trent University Durham GTA campus (55 Thornton Road South, Oshawa). All welcome.