Many scientists have found the evolution of the eye attractive to study because the eye distinctively exemplifies an analogous organ found in many animal...

single image. This type of eye is common in mammals. The human eye is a non-compound eye. The simplest eyes are pit eyes. They are eye-spots which may be set...

is truly convergent evolution or parallel evolution. Unlike the vertebrate camera eye, the cephalopods' form as invaginations of the body surface (rather...

reflective layer behind the retina that sends light that passes through the retina back into the eye. They also have a high number of rods in their retina...

"simple eye" is distinct from a multi-lensed "compound eye", and is not necessarily at all simple in the usual sense of the word. The structure of an animal's...

small fraction of platyrrhine primates (New World monkeys) are trichromats. Evolution of color vision in primates Evolution of the eye Gagin, G.; Bohon...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification...

et al.'s The origin of the Vertebrate Eye, 2008. Trevor D. Lamb; Shaun P. Collin; Edward N. Pugh Jr (2007). "Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins,...

on October 11, 2014. A Ph.D. student, Ian Gray, is researching the evolution of the eye with research partner, Kenny, and first-year lab assistant, Karen...

and theological rejection of evolution by religious groups exists regarding the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life. In accordance with...

give the photoreceptors a second chance to catch the photons. There is also a relationship between body size and the overall diameter of the eye. A range...

made here of the convergent evolution of vertebrate and Molluscan eyes. The most complex Molluscan eye is the Cephalopod eye which is superficially similar...

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to evolution: In biology, evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of...

Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid...

very good understanding of the evolution of the eye (see fallacy of quoting out of context). He notes that "to suppose that the eye ... could have been formed...

the evolution of the eye. See: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Valentin Dragoi. "Chapter 14: Visual Processing: Eye and Retina". Neuroscience Online, the Open-Access...

The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...

Pettigrew, J.D. (1998). "Monotremes and the evolution of rapid eye movement sleep". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences...

parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some vertebrates. The eye is located at the top of the head...

then do the whole Feathers; for, as to the naked eye 'tis evident that the stem or quill of each Feather in the tail sends out multitudes of Lateral branches...

explains the evolution of the eye and vision by following the story of Wrinkles the Wonderbrain. Hosler is also an entomologist and associate professor of biology...

The molluscs have the widest variety of eye morphologies of any phylum, and a large degree of variation in their function. Cephalopods such as octopus...

perspective on evolution that focuses on accounting for the products of evolution as collections of adaptive traits, each a product of natural selection...

(December 24, 2018). "Gritty's evolution from googly-eyed hockey mascot to meme to leftist avatar, explained". Vox. Archived from the original on November 7,...

changes in flagellar strokes and thus cell movement. Evolution of the eye Ocelloid Kreimer, G. (2009). "The green algal eyespot apparatus: A primordial visual...

after having diverged from the common ancestor shared with the grey wolf, the evolution of the dog proceeded in three stages. The first was natural selection...

The evolution of color vision in primates is highly unusual compared to most eutherian mammals. A remote vertebrate ancestor of primates possessed tetrachromacy...

predators. The lack of saccadic eye movements forces the toad to hold its eyes in rigid positions. Therefore, it must decide whether the object is "prey"...