The Evolution of the Eye

• Main Authors: Glaeser, Georg (Author), Paulus, Hannes F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Animal ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Popular Science.; Popular Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Ecology.

With fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, the book piques readers’ curiosity about the diversity of visual organs. This book is the result of a dual approach – scientific as well as aesthetic. The compelling images are accompanied by an easy-to-read, understandable text, aimed at both scient...

Table of Contents:

• Thoughts about evolution
• Lens eyes or facet eyes?
• The world is 3D
• The limits of clarity
• Simple or simplified?
• Above and below the water
• Pax and homology
• Alternative senses
• A world of color
• The language of our eyes.