Are some people more “hardwired” than others to be nocturnal?

[Anonymous]

[Effably]

Yes!

There are plenty of theories on this. Feel free to look it up more deeply.

The gist of the most popular theories is that humans evolved to be both diurnal and nocturnal, or more strictly speaking to be both active in the morning and reasonably late. Not during the darkest night.

The typical theory goes that having morning and night people helped increase our odds of surviving as there would often be someone up and around. As such we deduce that people being morning or evening people is actually a remnant of this.

Aaaand if we assume that is true its pretty sick that our society is so morning-focused when that is going to alienate roughly half of all humans. Anyway, it is believed to be genetic and for good reason so that should count as hardwired.

[DrPepper12]

Yes but by small degrees

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Yes, this is a known phenomena. Some people are made to be early risers and some more accustomed to late days. It’s believed this is based on our ancestry, who was made to hunt and gather during the day and who was made to keep watch at night.

[jahaims]

Its genetic. Genes like CRY1 show this.

[Jeff51]

Im. in bed by 10p. Not all nite