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Because women are generally born with two X chromosomes, some are actually tetrachromats—they see the world not in three color dimensions but in four.[*34] Like birds, these women can tell far subtler differences between red, green, and yellow wavelengths, potentially making them able to see as many as 100 million distinct colors: a full 99 million more than the average human being.[*35]
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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