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Tue 05 May 2010Why do we see colour?
THAT’S THE WHY: Roses are red, violets are blue . . . and we humans realise this because we can see colour.
All very well and it surely makes our world a prettier place, but why do we see colour? Why, in evolutionary terms, did colour vision stick around?
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