[Image: Smithsonian Books] Take Darwin’s writings aboard his H.M.S. Beagle, where he described being moved by the color of the Indian Ocean in 1832: “I had been struck by the beautiful color ...

But can you embody a rubber hand of a different skin colour from your own? Manos Tsakiris and colleagues at Royal Holloway, University of London, induced the illusion in 22 white participants ...