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Lionel Mandrake

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2. My dear CP,

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 12:51 AM

Jul 2015

There are several types of red-green colorblindness. Since your father was unaware of it until he was tested as an adult, I'm guessing he had one of the innocuous types: either protanomaly or deuteranomaly. For definitions of these terms, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

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Color vision and X-inactivation. [View all] Lionel Mandrake Jul 2015 OP

That's interesting, my dear Lionel Mandrake. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2015 #1

My dear CP, Lionel Mandrake Jul 2015 #2

Interesting. I had no idea that women who are carriers have a deficit in the ability to color match. BlueJazz Jul 2015 #3

It's an exceedingly subtle effect. Lionel Mandrake Jul 2015 #4

Thank you. BlueJazz Jul 2015 #5

You're welcome. Lionel Mandrake Jul 2015 #6

Oh yes, bought a special light with a 3 part lens that is suppose to block out the rays that... BlueJazz Jul 2015 #7

Types of colorblindness Lionel Mandrake Jul 2015 #8

Color vision in the Hominoidea is fiendishly complex. hunter Jul 2015 #9

Color vision is pretty much the same in all old-world monkeys (including apes like us). Lionel Mandrake Jul 2015 #10

Yep. hunter Jul 2015 #11

A couple of comments about those curves. Lionel Mandrake Jul 2015 #12

Please note that I have just edited post #8 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2015 #13

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