After decades of exhaustive study, scientists have concluded that human tetrachromacy is real. Some people have a truly superhuman range of color vision. In fact, there are two distinct types of ...
Color blindness is a fairly common phenomenon, affecting approximately one in 12 men and one in 200 women worldwide. A much rarer condition is tetrachromacy–the total opposite of color blindness, ...
"It was a Rosetta Stone moment; I felt like we had broken the code." The recent correspondence from Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D., an affable and brilliant scientist studying the senses at Arizona ...
So you’re a tetrachromat? But are you the “strong” type? Tetrachromacy is the possession of four cone cells. This allows organisms to have a four-dimensional color experience—something that fish, ...
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"It was a Rosetta Stone moment; I felt like we had broken the code." The recent correspondence from Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D., an affable and brilliant scientist studying the senses at Arizona ...
About one percent of people worldwide can see 99 million more colors than the average person, creating a more vivid world, seeing hues invisible to most humans. Tetrachromacy is a rare genetic trait ...