Interesting I work with primates and had not come across your paper before. I suspect, as you closed with in the paper, that it may well exist for a composite of reasons.
Phaneric plumage in birds and aposematism in general make the ripe fruit hypothesis seem overly simplistic too.
Colour is a very interesting topic. I don't know if you're familiar with Goethe's theories on them.
I look at a lot of the media/propaganda on convid1984 and can almost see colourful lies in synesthesia. I think it might be part of the psyop induced hypnosis; but if so it runs crazy deep and below the perceptible limit for nearly all.
I'll add your book to the huge required reading list generated post 2020.
First time commenter here and an entirely naive (and straight-up, not trap) question, as I am not familiar with your work.
Given that we humans likely had black skin for most of our evolution-relevant history, and colour vision developed among primates, that have hairy faces, how did colour vision evolve for the purposes of detecting facially-displayed emotional information?
The display of emotion on white skin may well be an important thing, culturally and in terms of evolution (mate choice-driven?), but didn't the colour vision come first?
Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing Mark!
Interesting I work with primates and had not come across your paper before. I suspect, as you closed with in the paper, that it may well exist for a composite of reasons.
Phaneric plumage in birds and aposematism in general make the ripe fruit hypothesis seem overly simplistic too.
Colour is a very interesting topic. I don't know if you're familiar with Goethe's theories on them.
I look at a lot of the media/propaganda on convid1984 and can almost see colourful lies in synesthesia. I think it might be part of the psyop induced hypnosis; but if so it runs crazy deep and below the perceptible limit for nearly all.
I'll add your book to the huge required reading list generated post 2020.
No, I'd never heard of you before Covid but your books sound really interesting. I'm going to have a read. I might add them to my book club list too!
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/book-club-virus-mania
I'm sure there's a clown joke in here somewhere
got it
scientists discover that clowns are evolutionary drivers!
First time commenter here and an entirely naive (and straight-up, not trap) question, as I am not familiar with your work.
Given that we humans likely had black skin for most of our evolution-relevant history, and colour vision developed among primates, that have hairy faces, how did colour vision evolve for the purposes of detecting facially-displayed emotional information?
The display of emotion on white skin may well be an important thing, culturally and in terms of evolution (mate choice-driven?), but didn't the colour vision come first?