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What's more fun when you constrain to only humans is that nearly all other mammals are dichromats. Old world primates then re-evolved trichromic vision.

This provides some reminder that evolutionary pressure does not select for optimal coverage of the EM spectrum, but for the portion of the EM spectrum which will provide advantages.




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