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In reply to the discussion: When evolution gets weird... [View all]

Odin2005

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9. If you stare at a clear blue sky you can see the white blood cells in your retinal blood vessels.
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 10:11 PM
Nov 2014

It's really unnerving.

And speaking of tetrachromacy, the common ancestor of all land vertebrates and bony fish was a tertrachromat, but we mammals were reduced to dichromacy when our shrew-like ancestors became nocturnal burrowers. Then our primate ancestors evolved trichromacy.

In fact, the higher primates are the only mammals that have color vision better than dichromacy.

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