The eye : a very short introduction / Michael F. Land.
Series: Very short introductions ; 388.Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: xvii, 105 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780199680306
- 0199680302
- 573.88 23
- QL949 .L263 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first eyes -- Making better eyes -- The human eye -- The moving eye -- The third dimension -- Colour -- Seeing and the brain -- When vision fails
The eye is one of the most remarkable achievements of evolution, evolving up to 40 times in different parts of the animal kingdom. For humans, vision is the most important sense, and much of our brains are used to process visual information.
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