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Exhibitions: The Island of the Colorblind

By David Schonauer   Sunday July 23, 2017


In most places, colorblindness is rare.

But the Micronesian island of Pingelap isn’t most places.

Known as the Island of the Colorblind, the tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean has a high concentration of people presenting achromatopsia, a genetic trait that causes severe colorblindness. Typically, the trait occurs in fewer …


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