Multiple Choice
Some researchers have suggested that our 24-hour sleep/wake cycle may partially be a response to a world where the sun rises and sets on a 24-hour cycle.Imagine that the earth is gradually slowing down,and in 10,000 years the sun rises and sets on a 26-hour cycle instead.If you came to this future world you might expect that people would tend to
A) follow the old cycle and still fall asleep once every 24 hours.
B) show no consistent wake-sleep cycle.
C) develop an even shorter 22-hour sleep/wake cycle.
D) follow the extended cycle set by the sun and fall asleep once every 26 hours.
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