Re: CHAT: Orange

Well, they figure the split happened approx 30 million yrs ago, so
after the old world new world split but before the ape split.

-Sylvia

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 18:41, Karapcik, Mike wrote:
>    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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