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   p.kinsler@ic.ac.uk to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard   
   Re: Navy Blue   
   10 Aug 11 12:22:44   
   
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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  wrote:   
   > > Our TV sets can show only three colours, [...]   
   > Apart from the ones with the latest gimmick: yellow.   
   > > A hypothetical Martian with four kinds of colour receptors [...]   
   > Of course, one doesn't have to go to Mars to find a creature whose   
   > visual apparatus differs from that of a human.   
      
   Even some humans have four colour receptors, apparently;   
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell   
      
   has some references (including a scientific article).   
      
      
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