© Kamla-Raj 2004                                                                             Anthropologist, 6(4): 299  (2004)

 

 

Incidence of Colour Blindness Among the

Nicobarese of Car Nicobar

 

Nitin Maurya, M. P. Sachdeva and A. K. Kalla

 

Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India

 

Keywords Colour blindness. Variation.  Nicobarese. Car Nicobar.

 

Abstract The study deals with the incidence of colour blindness in the Nicobarese population of the remote island of Car Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal.  The sample comprises of 501 individuals (248 males and 253 females) of which 8 were found to be colour blind (7 males and 1 female).

 


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