Animal Eyes /

Animal Eyes /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Land, Michael F., author.
Edition:	Second edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour)
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford animal biology series Oxford animal biology series.
Subject:	Vision. Eye. 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. Eye. Vision. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11148399

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Other authors / contributors:	Nilsson, Dan-Eric, author.
ISBN:	9780191624230 0191624233 9781280595387 1280595388 9780199581139 0199581134 9780199581146 0199581142
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Land, Michael F. Animal eyes. 2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780199581139

Table of 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.