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JULY 23, 2020 | “For most of our evolutionary history, we were social sleepers. [...] It was actually the people that made the environment safe.” — David Samson

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MAY 25, 2020 | Why can stress make it hard to get to sleep? Learn how to clean up your “sleep hygiene” with UTM anthropologist David Samson in episode three of 3Q’s at the U with Science Sam.

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APRIL 29, 2019 | David Samson interviews with Dishen Kumar in the fifth episode of Health Matters — "Time to Get Some Sleep!"

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MARCH 12, 2018 | Sleep researchers John Peever and David R. Samson join Steve Paikin to discuss how evolution has shaped human sleep.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 | Reuters Editor’s Pick Video — "Our sleep patterns inherited from hunter-gatherers, study says" produced by Jim Drury from The StraitsTimes.

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'How the Wild Things Sleep?' in CBC's The Nature of Things

MARCH 11 2022 | Unraveling the secrets of why and how, exactly, humans and animals sleep? UofT researchers David Samson and John Peever join David Suzuki to explore this question. 

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