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The Common Descent Podcast

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Mammalian Color Vision Is Not as Good as Other Animals

Early mammals might have adapted to be really good for nocturnal living and in doing so lost some of their color vision capability. That gave rise to the modern diversity of mammals who all inherited that slightly altered visual capacity. Even day dwelling, diurnal mammals today still have somewhat limited color vision just because of their ancestry.

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