The evolution of color vision

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4):671-671 (2001)
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Abstract

It is argued that color constancy is only one of the benefits of color vision and probably not the most important one. Attention to a different benefit, chromatic contrast, suggests that the features of the environment that played a role in the evolution of color vision are properties of particular ecological niches rather than properties of naturally-occurring illumination. [Shepard].

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Ian Gold
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