Response to de la Iglesia et al

Gandhi Yetish; Hillard Kaplan; Michael Gurven; Brian Wood; Herman Pontzer; Paul R Manger; Charles Wilson; Ronald McGregor; Jerome M Siegel

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.057

Response to de la Iglesia et al

Curr Biol. 2016 Apr 4;26(7):R273-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.057.

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Gandhi Yetish¹, Hillard Kaplan¹, Michael Gurven², Brian Wood³, Herman Pontzer⁴, Paul R Manger⁵, Charles Wilson⁶, Ronald McGregor⁷, Jerome M Siegel⁸

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¹ Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, MSC01-1040, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
² Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1210 Cheadle Hall, CA 93106, USA.
³ Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 10 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
⁴ Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, 695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065, USA.
⁵ School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Neurology and Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 16111 Plummer St., Los Angeles, CA 91343, USA; Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: jsiegel@ucla.edu.

Abstract

We wish to respond to the commentary of de la Iglesia et al. [1]. Studies comparing sleep in different communities have different goals. One frequent goal has been to determine how sleep is affected by manipulating specific 'modern' conditions. Many studies have investigated the effect of artificial light and electronic entertainment. Such studies have clearly shown that light, particularly blue light, delays sleep onset [2]. Studying the effect of artificial light on sleep was not a goal of our study.

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