Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

I'll get off it too but just one more comment. Illustration: blind cave fish
didn't get blind because they live in a cave -- they survived being blind
because they wandered into a cave. Most mutations don't survive. basis for
animal camouflage also. We're tough because we have that thumb thing
happening.

Sorry for being OT, so now Ill shut up.

Barry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Frost" <bob@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Bob needs Color to survive



bgs,

It used to be hunting that probably led to the development of our eyesight.
Now, as long as we can read the supermarket labels at 2ft, we get fed.

Human eyesight is possibly declining now since there is no longer any
selection pressure for good eyesight, with corrective glasses available to
most. Except perhaps on the roads, where drivers with poor eyesight might
get killed off earlier (if they are not wearing their glasses).

Other animals exceed our abilities in many respects, we don't have a very
good sense of smell, we have relatively poor eyesight, we can't run very
fast, we are very vulnerable in our early years, etc, etc. The main thing we
are good at is killing other animals, which is why we are 'numero uno' on
the planet - at present.

But this is getting rather OT, so I'll shut up, and look out the window at
this beautiful sunset. I don't somehow think it would be as nice in B&W!

Bob Frost.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bgs" <bgs@...>



By your reasoning we are more primitive than hawks, eagles, etc. because
they have more cones in their eyes than we do. They see color much better
than we do. For them it's hunting not photography.





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