The evolution of color vision in primates is highly unusual compared to most eutherian mammals. A remote vertebrate ancestor of primates possessed tetrachromacy...

poor color vision. Exceptions occur for some marsupials (which possibly kept their original color vision) and some primates—including humans. Primates, as...

The evolutionary history of the primates can be traced back 57-90 million years. One of the oldest known primate-like mammal species, Plesiadapis, came...

complex history of evolution in different animal taxa. In primates, color vision may have evolved under selective pressure for a variety of visual tasks...

Pentachromacy Mantis shrimp (dodecachromats) Evolution of color vision in primates Young–Helmholtz theory LMS color space "Color Glossary". Archived from the original...

Jacobs, GH (12 October 2009). "Evolution of colour vision in mammals". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences...

trait. The evolution of color vision in primates is unique among most eutherian mammals. While the remote vertebrate ancestors of the primates possessed...

protein-coding OR genes. The vision priority hypothesis states that the evolution of color vision in primates may have decreased primate reliance on olfaction...

of yellows, blues and grays, but they have difficulty differentiating between red and green, making their color vision equivalent to red–green color blindness...

(see-Evolution of color vision, Evolution of color vision in primates) Sudden acquired retinal degeneration, a disease that causes blindness in dogs "Blind...

possibility of color vision through the comparison of absorbance across different types of cones. According to Marshall et al., most animals in the marine...

of color vision – Origin and variation of colour vision across various lineages through geologic time Evolution of color vision in primates – Loss and...

that while primates may not possess morality in the human sense, they do exhibit some traits that would have been necessary for the evolution of morality...

The simians, anthropoids, or higher primates are an infraorder (Simiiformes /ˈsɪmi.ɪfɔːrmiːz/) of primates containing all animals traditionally called...

monkeys, but strepsirrhine primates (suborder Strepsirrhini). The simians' sister group, the tarsiers, are also haplorhine primates; however, they are also...

opsins. Dimensionality of color vision Monochromacy Dichromacy Trichromacy Evolution of color vision Infrared vision RG color space RGBY Somatosensory...

Studies in artificial neuronal nets support this presumption (for an example see Ewert 2004). Previously thought to be characteristic of solely primates and...

evoked with a combination of monochromatic light and white light. Dichromacy in humans is a color vision deficiency in which one of the three cone cells is...

Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid...

including: primates, cetaceans, and birds. Primates and birds can pass information of specific tool use strategies on to their offspring who can, in turn,...

(1874). The Descent of Man. Heinemann, London. Miller, G. F. (2000). The Mating Mind: How sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature. Heinemann...

through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum...

compared to diurnal primate vision systems. Cathemeral primates exhibit a vision system that is intermediate of diurnal and nocturnal primates, which suggests...

thresholds. Color vision studies have also been performed on squirrel monkeys for the purpose of better understanding vision ailments in humans. The common...

Primates in Perspective (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539043-8. Hartwig, W. (2011). "Chapter 3: Primate evolution". Primates in Perspective...

Retrieved 2020-09-08. Seiffert, Erik R. (2007). "Evolution and Extinction of Afro-Arabian Primates Near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary". Folia Primatologica...

Helmholtz in the early 19th century. Their theory of color vision correctly proposed that the eye uses three distinct receptors to perceive color. The visible...

novelty that first evolved in the common ancestor of the Old World Primates. Our trichromatic color vision evolved by duplication of the long wavelength sensitive...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

cannot see the red color of the cape of a bullfighter, but they are agitated by its movement. (See color vision). One theory for why primates developed sensitivity...