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The Island of the Colour-blind and Cycad Island

by Oliver Sacks | category Science |
ISBN: 0330350811
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On the South Pacific atoll of Pingelap, Sacks finds that a startlingly high proportion of the population is colour-blind. On Guam, an endemic neurogenerative disease is linked to the island's cycads which form the islanders' staple dietmore


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