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daedrdevtoday at 12:14 AM1 replyview on HN

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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reactordevtoday at 1:36 AM

maybe in 100M years we'll get a 4th cone or rod. Probably from nuclear mutation...

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