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by Ferret7446 41 days ago
The polyphasic sleep schedule was aligned with darkness, not random times throughout the day. Daylight was far too valuable for that.
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This varies, you still see some polyphasic sleep in countries that have very hot middle of the days, Greece + Spain off the top of my head. An intentional waste of daylight because the cooler mornings and evenings are better, but industrialisation has still reduced the frequency of these practices.