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  2. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    In the 1730s, Carl Linnaeus in his introduction of systematic taxonomy recognized four main human subspecies, termed Americanus (Americans), Europaeus (Europeans), Asiaticus (Asians) and Afer (Africans). The physical appearance of each type is briefly described, including colour adjectives referring to skin and hair colour: rufus "red" and ...

  3. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    The irises of human eyes exhibit a wide spectrum of colours. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [ 1 ][ 2 ] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [ 3 ]: 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from ...

  4. Color term - Wikipedia

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    high-frequency, and. agreed upon by speakers of that language. English has 11 basic color terms: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple, and gray; other languages have between 2 and 12. All other colors are considered by most speakers of that language to be variants of these basic color terms.

  5. Color blindness - Wikipedia

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    Red–green: 8% males, 0.5% females (Northern European descent) [ 2 ] Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. [ 2 ] The severity of color blindness ranges from mostly unnoticeable to full absence of color perception. Color blindness is usually an inherited problem or ...

  6. List of Monsters, Inc. characters - Wikipedia

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    Jason Chiang is a red-and-yellow-striped monster with bat-like wings. Raj Kapoor is a purple rhinoceros-like monster with spike-like "hair" and a short horn on his nose. Rufus Remerez is a maroon monster that is a recolored version of Ricky Plesuski. The Kowalski Sisters - Tracey, Stacey and Casey are a three-headed purple dragon-like monster.

  7. List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters - Wikipedia

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    Sonic the Hedgehog, [a] trademarked Sonic The Hedgehog, [1] is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog and the main protagonist of the series. Developed as a replacement for their existing Alex Kidd mascot, as well as Sega's response to Mario, his first appearance was in the arcade game Rad Mobile as a cameo, before making his official debut in Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).

  8. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    The color purple, as defined in the X11 color names in 1987, is brighter and bluer than the HTML/CSS web color purple shown above as purple (HTML/CSS color). This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors. This color can be called X11 purple. Veronica prostrata, for which the color veronica is named.

  9. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.