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reactordevyesterday at 9:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

The real question is, is the sky blue for everyone? Some creatures can see ultraviolet. Some lack color at all…


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daedrdevtoday at 12:14 AM

Some animals have more cone types than humans, especially various birds, so would probably see a violet sky.

We don't have this because common ancestor for all mammals lost all cones but one, perhaps due to being nocturnal, and a second was re-evolved as mammals became more dominant (after dinosaur extension). A third cone was evolved in primates due to a gene duplication that gave us our green cone

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269890...

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mncharityyesterday at 11:06 PM

I puttered on a color interactive where, to emphasize this distinction between world-spectra vs brain-color, you could swap in color deficiencies, a non-primate mammal ( dichromats), and a monochromat.

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