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You might think that these pollinators evolved eyes that see flowers well, but that’s not what happened. Their style of trichromacy evolved hundreds of millions of years before the first flowers appeared, so the latter must have evolved to suit the former. Flowers evolved colors that ideally tickle insect eyes.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong
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