Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
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Do Humans Have Color Perception?
Colors convey an evolutionary advantage. Or a sort of sexual selective advantage, as in the case of butterflies. But some theories are that colors, we see colors because it's, you know, for sex,. Like all kinds of other stuff that we do that doesn't seem to have any other purpose just because it's important. It's one of the arcs in the book is this long term war between form and color.
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