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A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it
Written by Rob DeSalle and Hans Bachor
Narrated by George Newbern
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A star curator at the American Museum of Natural History shows how the physical, natural, and cultural context of color is inextricably tied to what we see.
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Rob DeSalle
Rob DeSalle is a curator in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and a professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. He is the author or coauthor of several books including The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World and Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You.
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