Animal eyes [electronic resource] / Michael F. Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson

Author:: Land, Michael F.
Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:: 2nd ed.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
Additional Creators:: Nilsson, Dan-Eric

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Oxford animal biology series

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The origin of vision -- The first eyes -- Evolution of the essential components of visual systems -- Evolution of visual function -- The diversity of eye design -- Summary -- 2.Light and vision -- The nature of light -- Light intensity -- Contrast -- Wavelength and colour -- Polarization -- Summary -- 3.What makes a good eye? -- Fundamentals -- Resolution -- Sensitivity -- Conclusions -- Summary -- 4.Aquatic eyes: the evolution of the lens -- Evolutionary origins -- Pinhole eyes: giant clams and Nautilus -- Under-focused lens eyes -- Forming a sharp image -- Eyes of fish and cephalopods -- Matching eye to environment -- Eyes with non-spherical lenses -- Summary -- 5.Lens eyes on land -- A new optical surface -- Basic optics of cornea and lens -- Variations on the lens/cornea theme in land vertebrates -- Amphibious eyes -- Invertebrate eyes with corneal optics -- Summary -- 6.Mirrors in animals -- Mirrors in eyes -- The physical optics of animal reflectors -- Uses of photonic reflectors in structures other than eyes -- Summary -- 7.Apposition compound eyes -- Origins -- A little history: apposition and neural superposition -- Basic optics -- Ecological variations in apposition design -- The anomalous eyes of strepsipterans and trilobites -- Summary -- 8.Superposition eyes -- Introduction---the nature of superposition imagery -- Refracting superposition -- Superposition and afocal apposition: the eyes of butterflies -- Reflecting superposition -- Parabolic superposition -- Summary -- 9.Movements of the eyes -- Sampling the world in space and time -- How humans acquire visual information -- Are other animals like us? -- Insect flight behaviour seen as eye movement -- Translational saccades: head-bobbing in birds -- Why not let the eyes wander? Some consequences of image motion -- Exceptions: rotational scanning by one-dimensional retinae -- Summary.

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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.

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9780191774652 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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