Ocular pigmentation in humans, great apes, and gibbons is not suggestive of communicative functions

Abstract Pigmentation patterns of the visible part of the eyeball, encompassing the iris and portions of the sclera, have been discussed to be linked to social cognition in primates. The cooperative eye hypothesis suggests the white sclera of humans to be a derived adaptive trait that enhances eye-m...

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Main Authors: Kai R. Caspar, Marco Biggemann, Thomas Geissmann, Sabine Begall
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/56b5b0cb6c824e00b74c78412e35e902
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