Matthew Wolf-Meyer

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz and author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life

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If you suffer from insomnia, you are hardly alone. More than half of Americans between 13 and 64 have trouble falling to sleep every night.

Insomnia, Sleeping Pills and Evolution

If you suffer from insomnia, you are hardly alone. More than half of Americans between 13 and 64 have trouble falling to sleep every night.

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