That certain tribes who live in a jungle setting can discern and have names for about 40 different shades of green, where a city dweller would see them all as being exactly the same shade.
I think I’ve read before that our eyes are most sensitive to the color green out of any other color, something about it that wavelength of light is absorbed more readily by the cones in our eyes. Being exposed to it daily and maybe having their survival dependent on it probably helps them develop that ability.
That certain tribes who live in a jungle setting can discern and have names for about 40 different shades of green, where a city dweller would see them all as being exactly the same shade.
I think I’ve read before that our eyes are most sensitive to the color green out of any other color, something about it that wavelength of light is absorbed more readily by the cones in our eyes. Being exposed to it daily and maybe having their survival dependent on it probably helps them develop that ability.
Linux Journal was interviewing a guy who’d worked on OS/2 at IBM…
He said that we’ve got 2x the sensitivity to green as to red, & 2x the sensitivity to red as to blue.
Basically, we’ve got 1-bit more sensitivity to green than to red, & 1-bit more sensitivity to red than to blue.
I’ve read in linguistics stuff that tribes that have 2 words for color have 1 word which means bright & 1 word which means dark,
tribes with 3 words have a word for blood-color, as well…
green doesn’t seem to be as significant in the words-for-it department of tribal life, from what I’ve read.
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