The evolution of the eye from algae and jellyfish to humans
Subtitle: how vision adapts to environment
By: by Arthur J. Hudson ; with a foreword by Bessie Borwein.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780773436992
Subjects: Eye -- Evolution; Anatomy, Comparative; Eye -- Anatomy; Eye -- anatomy & histology; Vision, Ocular -- physiology; Adaptation, Biological; Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginning of life on earth; title: Eyespots and the earliest forms of the eye; title: Aquatic invertebrate eyes; title: The eyes of insects (hexapoda); title: Crustacean eyes; title: The eyes of spiders; title: Vertebrate eyes; title: The eyes of fish and other marine vertebrates; title: Eyes of amphibia, reptiles and birds; title: Mammals; title: Genetic control mechanisms in the evolution of the eye.