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Vernon and Straker1 reported that the incidence ofcolour-vision defect among recruits for the Royal Navy was least in the north-eastern part of Britain and greatest in the south-western part. They deduced that colour-vision defect may be racially connected with pigmentation.
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GRAY, R. Incidence of Colour-Vision Weakness. Nature 153, 657 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153657a0
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