Life, How It Arose And How It Works
As soon as the Earth became cool enough complex chemistry turned into biology, where these new entities were able to make copies of themselves. This occurred very early on in the history of the Earth.
Now, after billions of years life has reached incredible diversity and levels of sophistication. Yet, as far as we know, it only exists here on Earth.
Here we will cover some of the fundamental aspects of life and go into some considerable detail of how things work.
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Human Colour Vision Explained, the Full Story
Here is the full story of human colour vision in a complete article that we‘ve tried to keep as understandable as possible. It a long read, that is a bit shocking, especially when you realise just how little of what we see actually reflects what is actually out there!
Human Colour Vision Explained in Bite Sized Pieces
Human vision and our perceptions of colour is a huge topic, and can become intensely technical. Here we’ve tried to keep it as straight forward as possible, and you can select the parts that most interest you. It is in part educational, and excuse the pun – it’s a bit of an eye opener, in part entertaining – especially how…