Preliminary Evidence of Superhuman Tetrachromats
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چکیده
The human eye can normally resolve millions of colours, though we use only three colour sensors. This three-dimensional colour vision system is unique to humans and Old-world primates, and is known as trichromacy (3-colour). Elsewhere in the animal kingdom, other types of colour vision abound. Insects exhibit some of the more impressive systems: bees are tetrachromats (4-colour) and can see more ultraviolet light than humans, and many butterflies are pentachromats (5-colour).
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