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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

tetrachromats

Scientists have found a woman whose eyes have a whole new type of colour receptor
She sees 99 million colours more than the rest of us.
FIONA MACDONALD
25 JUL 2016
After more than 25 years of searching, neuroscientists in the UK recently announced that they've discovered a woman who has an extra type of cone cell - the receptor cells that detect colour - in her eyes.
According to estimates, that means she can see an incredible 99 million more colours than the rest of us, and the scientists think she's just one of a number of people with super-vision, which they call "tetrachromats", living amongst us. 

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