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Kirk, E. C., & Kay, R. F. (2004). The evolution of high visual acuity in the Anthropoidea. In Anthropoid Origins (pp. 539-602). Springer US.

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Stavenga D., Smits R.P., Hoenders B.J. (1993) Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra. Vision Res. 33(8) pp. 1011-1017. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90237-Q



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