Seeing the blues

[Kephart, Ronald]

On 5/2/07 1:15 PM, "Robert Lawless" <robert.lawless at wichita.edu> wrote:

> Hey! They've discovered something that anthropologists have known for,
> what, decades now.

Robert, you beat me to it. I appears that the co-authors are all in
psychology programs. Isn't it always psychologists and sociologists that
keep "newly discovering" things that have become common knowledge in
anthropology?

By the way, there's also this:
 
>> "The question the researchers will have to answer is whether Russians
>> have a word for light blue because they see it as distinct, or
>> whether it is the other way around," Brown says.

This is a question? Does anybody seriously entertain the hypothesis that
Russian speakers have a color vision system that's distinct from the rest of
humanity, or for that matter, most primates?

Ron