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Slumber's Unexplored Landscape

Science News,  Sept 25, 1999  by Bruce Bower

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These days, Western societies treat sleep more as an unavoidable stretch of downtime than as a prelude to sex or a time for inner reflection. Only intensive investigations across cultures and classes will illuminate the lushness of sleep's landscape, Worthman predicts.

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Adds Wehr, "We're going to have to reconceptualize what it means to sleep normally."

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