Let Teenagers Sleep In

Re:Let Teenagers Sleep In by wmeredith on Sunday September 23, 2018 @08:55AM (#18050870)

It’s pure conjecture until the commenter posts some sources. Now I feel patronizing pointing it out, but you don’t have to stay up late to have sex. I think this is modern cultural norms being propped with pseudo science.

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep In by randomdata on Sunday September 23, 2018 @11:57AM (#18051632)

> but you don’t have to stay up late to have sex.

That doesn't mean that having a 'late night' trait wasn't advantageous to mating. For example, when humans started pair bonding, infidelity may have been more common among those who could sneak out under the cover a darkness while their partner was asleep, spreading that trait further than those who remained monogamous. It is easy to think of many possible reasons why a late night trait could have been advantageous in spreading that trait further than those who naturally followed a more daytime rhythm during teenage years.

Or it could just be random chance. Either way, it's fun to discuss. We don't have to dismiss all fun discussion because it may be conjecture. It is only the comments section of HN, not a respected scientific publication. Time and place.

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep In by FabHK on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:21AM (#18111101)

Also, when your jobs are a) finding berries and hunting mammoths and b) having sex, it is not implausible that doing a) during the day and b) during the night gives you more reproductive success than vice versa.

It is fun speculation, but still, OP's self-assured "this is so trivial" tone was not called for.

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep In by artpepper2 on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:59PM (#18052279)

I mean, my impression from reading 19th century novels is that people used to just slip into a convenient glen or wooded area, it wasn't that hard before the industrial era.

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