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| Dcker, G. | |
| Colour-vision in Mammals | |
| 1958 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (61): 273-286 | |
The capacity of animals to perceive colours in their environment may be considered as a very important biological achievement in the course of the phylogenesis of organisms for, which the appearance of chromatic sensation, animals no longer perceive their environment only grey-in-grey, i.e. they no longer draw visual distinctions merely by differences in light intensity, but also by chromatic qualities - for instance, they distinguish between a red and a green, subjectively equal in light intensity, by their chromatic degree. |
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