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Vocabulary. Pingelap Atoll is a tiny island in the South Pacific, and is just one of the 600 islands that make up the Federated States of Micronesia. Pingelap is also sometimes called by another name, the Island of the Colorblind. That's the name Oliver Sacks assigned the island in his 1996 book that explored the human brain.
The Island of the Colorblind. In the late eighteenth century a catastrophic typhoon swept over Pingelap, a tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean. One of the survivors, the king, carried the rare achromatopsia-gene that causes complete color blindness. The king went on to have many children and as time passed by, the hereditary condition affected the ...
The Island of the Colorblind. Oliver Sacks. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 12, 1998 - Psychology - 336 pages. "An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands."
14 de nov. de 2012 · The Island of the Colorblind provides what Sacks readers expect: serious neurological cases, a humane appreciation for the patient, and an artistic sensitivity. We learn about several societies where the gene for colorblindness has become established and how that has affected the cultures of the people.
21 de jul. de 2017 · The Dwarf Empire, Snow White, Samoa Kekea and especially The Island of the Colorblind – I mean, they are all very much about how genetics shapes you and how it can determine your life path in a ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · The Island of the Colorblind seemed like a natural next choice for me, because it combines my interest in neuropsychology with my interest in island biogeography (the study of the way species on islands evolve to become very specialized, to the point where an extremely high percentage of the species on any given island may be endemic to that ...
