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Color categories and biology: Considerations from molecular genetics, neurobiology, and evolutionary theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Stephen L. Zegura
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 zeguras@ccit.arizona.edu

Abstract

Evidence from molecular genetics bolsters the claim that color is not a perceptuolinguistic and behavioral universal. Neurobiology continues to fill in many details about the flow of color information from photon reception to central processing in the brain. Humans have the most acute color vision in the biosphere because of natural selection and adaptation, not coincidence.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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