Flicker Theory


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A theory describing the evolutionary pressure that caused the emergence of color vision. Maximov (2000) argued that ripples on water surface cause uneven diffraction and therefore animals living near under the water surface would experience a constant flickering of light. Visual creatures in this habitat would therefore experience noise in their vision from this flicker. This would make it difficult for them to differentiate predators from the flicker.