Re: CHAT: Orange

   Or early-evolution humans?
   Actually, that would be a very interresting conculture, if the women were
tricolor, and the men saw only in bicolor. Think of the color-based ciphers
that could create. Red writing on green paper would be visable to all women,
but invisible to men.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvia Sotomayor
Subject: Re: CHAT: Orange

 Also, old world monkeys and apes have all three
opsin genes and are trichromatic, just like most humans. New world
monkeys only have two (the red and green opsin genes are alleles of
each other, so some have red and some have green), and spider monkeys
have dichromatic males and trichromatic females... fun!

This is of course relevant only to those who are making non-human
languages, cultures, and peoples.

-Sylvia

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