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THERE is one point connected with Mr. Darwin's explanation of the bright colours of flowers which I have never seen referred to. The assumed attractiveness of bright colours to insects would appear to involve the supposition that the colour-vision of insects is approximately the same as our own. Surely this is a good deal to take for granted, when it is known that even among ourselves colour-vision varies greatly, and that no inconsiderable number of persons exist to whom, for example, the red of the scarlet geranium is no bright colour at all, but almost a match with the leaves.
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RAYLEIGH Insects and the Colours of Flowers. Nature 11, 6 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011006a0
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