'Covid nightmares & Sleep Architecture with Dr. David Samson' in Human Biology Association with Chris & Cara
MAY 31, 2021 | Dr. David Samson, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto's, work focuses on the link between sleep and human evolution. In this episode he talks about how our vices affect sleep patterns and how those in turn affect our health. He also chats with Chris and Cara about his two most recent publications on how to measure sleep and what modern sleep patterns mean in an evolutionary context.
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Ontario Morning with Julianne Hazlewood
OCTOBER 13, 2020 | Erica Kilius a PhD candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Toronto tells us about the research she and others are doing to assess what effect the pandemic is having on people's dreams.
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'Pandemic Dreams' in CBC's "Calgary Eyeopener" with David Gray and Angela Knight
OCTOBER 13, 2020 | Having strange dreams lately? It might be because of the unusual times we are living through. We hear from a researcher studying the thoughts and images that might have you tossing and turning at night.
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'Are you experiencing strange dreams during the pandemic?' in Here and Now Toronto with Gill Deacon
OCTOBER 09, 2020 | Leela McKinnon is a third year PhD student in evolutionary anthropology. She has been studying how the pandemic is influencing people's dreams. She shared some of her findings with guest host, Mary Ito.
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'David Samson, Anthropology Professor, What Primates Can Teach Us About Leveraging Circadian Rhythm For Great Sleep' in Sleep is a skill with Mollie McGlocklin
MAY 22, 2020 | David is an anthropology professor, research, writer, and thinker on the topic of sleep & evolution. If there were such a thing as the rockstar of evolutionary biology & sleep...he would be it. He brings a fresh, fun, and tirelessly researched look at the link between human evolution and sleep.
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'Why are there Morning People and Night People?' in BBC CrowdScience
NOVEMBER 17, 2017 | Some of us want to be up with the larks, while others are more like night owls. But is our preference down to our genes, or more to do with habits and surroundings? We set out to find the answers...
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'Age and Sleep' in The Danielle Smith Show on Calgary AM
JULY 31, 2017 | Why do people often lose sleep as they get older? Dr. David Samson, assistant professor of Anthropology, at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, answers this question and more.
'Dr. David Samson is working to unravel the evolutionary reasons behind our mismatched sleep patterns' in Breakfast with Robbie Buck
JULY 13, 2017 | Not everyone slips comfortably into what you might call 'normal' sleep patterns. Some of us are early risers who are happy to wake up before the birds, while there are others who stay up into the wee hours and can't be dragged out of bed in them morning. Evolutionary biologist Dr David Samson is working to unravel the reasons behind our mismatched sleep patterns.
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'Have we always felt this tired?' in BBC World Service The Inquiry
JUNE 29, 2017 | “Humans are the only species that willingly deprive themselves from sleep”. Ever since fire was discovered, we have traded off sleep time for other activities - from creating stone tools to partying. As our technology progressed, the list of things to do rather than sleep just got longer. But with sleep deprivation now a growing health problem, could we be reaching our limits? Or is tiredness part of our condition?
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'Sleep habits may have helped humans branch off from other primates' in NPR's The Pulse
JUNE 27, 2017 | Human sleep behavior is different than that of many kinds of primates. That made researchers wonder, why did our branch of the family tree evolve differently?
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'Bedding, Sleep Depth, and Cognition - Professor David Samson' in humanOS Radio with Dan Pardi
MAY 19, 2016 | In this interview, Dan Pardi interviews evolutionary biologist, Professor David Samson. Dr. Samson talks about his research on the sleep platforms (i.e., beds) of great apes in Africa. We discuss how these platforms appear to have contributed to deeper sleep in certain great apes, and in turn, how this deeper sleep seemingly contributed to greater cognitive abilities than compared to primates with shallower sleep.
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