This heinous and nonsensical grammatical error is becoming ubiquitous:
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| Link: BBC News, ‘Ancestors “had less sleep” than we do’ |
The comparison is not, as the construction of the final subordinate clause above suggests, between modern people’s lifestyles and ancient hunter gatherers, but between modern people’s lifestyles and the lifestyles of ancient hunter gatherers, which thus requires an apostrophe after ‘gatherers’.
lifestyles closely resemble ancient hunter gatherers [no apostrophe]
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