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Nature's color palette explains why everything we see is a mix of red, yellow, green and blue
The response of photoreceptors in the eye are helping researchers understand why our brain perceives color as a combination of red, yellow, green and blue and not other colors, like orange and purple.
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Biologists and linguists have investigated why humans consistently describe colors as mixtures of four primary hues—red, yellow, green, and blue. The study examines the universal tendency to perceive and name colors using these four “pure” colors.
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