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Author Land, Michael F., author.

Title Animal Eyes / Michael F. Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour)
Series Oxford animal biology series
Oxford animal biology series.
Contents The origin of vision -- Light and vision -- What makes a good eye? -- Aquatic eyes : the evolution of the lens -- Lens eyes on land -- Mirrors in animals -- Apposition compound eyes -- Superposition eyes -- Movements of the eyes
Summary This text covers the way that all known types of eyes work, from their optics to the behaviour they guide. The ways that eyes sample the world in space and time are considered, and the evolutionary origins of eyes are discussed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
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Subject Vision.
Eye.
Senses and sensation.
Face.
Sense organs.
Head.
Cellular signal transduction.
Anatomy.
Psychophysiology.
Cell physiology.
Eye -- Physiology
Light Signal Transduction
Ocular Physiological Phenomena
Sensation
Eukaryota
Face
Sense Organs
Organisms
Head
Signal Transduction
Anatomy
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
Psychophysiology
Body Regions
Phenomena and Processes
Cell Physiological Phenomena
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Biochemical Phenomena
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena
Chemical Phenomena
Psychiatry and Psychology
Vision, Ocular
Eye
Animals
sight (sense)
anatomy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
Senses and sensation
Sense organs
Psychophysiology
Head
Face
Cellular signal transduction
Cell physiology
Anatomy
Eye
Vision
Form Electronic book
Author Nilsson, Dan-Eric, author.
ISBN 9780191624230
0191624233
9781280595387
1280595388