The Evolution of the Eye

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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 scientists and the educated public, and generally anyone interested in the beauty of nature. Thanks to this combination, the book presents the staggering diversity of eyes in the animal kingdom and provides countless insights into the intriguing mechanisms at work – from simple pigment cups to independently flexible, telescopic, facet and lens eyes.

Educational, exciting, entertaining till the last page, this is a book for anyone who is interested in evolution, nature and the miracle of life.

Author(s): Georg Glaeser, Hannes F. Paulus (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015

Language: English
Pages: XVI, 214
Tags: Popular Life Sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary Biology; Animal Ecology

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Thoughts about evolution....Pages 1-16
Lens eyes or compound eyes?....Pages 17-60
The world is 3D....Pages 61-78
The limits of clarity....Pages 79-102
Simple or simplified?....Pages 103-124
Above and below the water....Pages 125-144
Pax and homology....Pages 145-150
Alternative senses....Pages 151-168
A world of color....Pages 169-182
The language of our eyes....Pages 183-209
Back Matter....Pages 210-214