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A neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, Matthew Walker specialises in sleep research and has become a leading voice on how sleep affects health, memory, and cognitive function. Why We Sleep presents his findings on why adequate sleep is essential to human wellbeing.

The practice of biphasic sleep is not cultural in origin, however. It is deeply biological. All humans, irrespective of culture or geographical location, have a genetically hardwired dip in alertness that occurs in the midafternoon hours.

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Why We Sleep
August 2018 · 13 highlights