Peter Attia· MD
there was something about the transition of homo sapiens from tree to ground which increased the amount of rem sleep that we were getting dramatically and in fact if you look at our sleep amounts relative to other primates our non-rem sleep amounts are human beings you know homo sapiens somewhere in that distribution what were pretty similar but in terms of our rem sleep as a primate we are a complete standout we have almost double the amount of rem sleep that any other primate has and so i think and in the book i sort of did some lots of hand waving and pontificating about this i wrote a book and um and in some of those chapters i sort of speak about what was the cause of that and what did it allow and i think one of the benefits was you know emotional intelligence it wasn't iq it was eq that rem sleep also allowed us to develop