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According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, why are we able to see a wide variety of colors?
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According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, why are we able to see a wide variety of colors?
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We have three different types of cone cells in our retina that are responsible for detecting different wavelengths of light and combining them to create all the colors we can see.
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