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Fruits, foliage and the evolution of primate colour vision.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Mar 2001

Regan B C, Julliot C, Simmen B, Viénot F, Charles-Dominique P, Mollon J D

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Primates are apparently unique amongst the mammals in possessing trichromatic colour vision. However, not all primates are trichromatic. Amongst the haplorhine (higher) primates, the catarrhines possess uniformly trichromatic colour vision, whereas most of the platyrrhine species exhibit polymorphic colour vision, with a variety of dichromatic and trichromatic phenotypes within the population. It has been...

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PMID: 11316480
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0773
PMCID: PMC1088428

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