The evolution of the eye from algae and jellyfish to humans : how vision adapts to environment /
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Author / Creator: | Hudson, Arthur J. (Arthur James), 1924- |
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Imprint: | Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010. |
Description: | iv, 154 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8050206 |
Table of Contents:
- The beginning of life on earth
- Eyespots and the earliest forms of the eye
- Aquatic invertebrate eyes
- The eyes of insects (hexapoda)
- Crustacean eyes
- The eyes of spiders
- Vertebrate eyes
- The eyes of fish and other marine vertebrates
- Eyes of amphibia, reptiles and birds
- Mammals
- Genetic control mechanisms in the evolution of the eye.