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- 2001036500 contributor B8939980.
- 2001036500 contributor B8939981.
- 2001036500 created "2002.".
- 2001036500 date "2002".
- 2001036500 date "2002.".
- 2001036500 dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- 2001036500 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-214).".
- 2001036500 description "Machine generated contents note: 1 The origin of vision 1 -- The first eyes 1 -- What is an eye? 4 -- Why and from what did eyes evolve? 6 -- The course and pace of eye evolution 7 -- Did eyes evolve once or many times 10 -- Summary 15 -- 2 Light and vision 16 -- The nature of light 16 -- Light intensity 19 -- Contrast 24 -- Wavelength and colour 24 -- Polarization 29 -- Summary 32 -- 3 What makes a good eye? 33 -- Fundamentals 33 -- Resolution 36 -- Sensitivity 47 -- Conclusions 53 -- Summary 55 -- 4 Aquatic eyes: the evolution of the lens 56 -- Evolutionary origins 56 -- The pin-hole eye of Nautilus 57 -- Spherical lenses 59 -- Lenses with refractive index gradients 60 -- Eyes of fish and cephalopods 63 -- Matching eye to environment 66 -- Eyes with non-spherical lenses 69 -- Summary 71 -- 5 Lens eyes on land 72 -- A new optical surface 72 -- Basic optics of cornea and lens 73 -- Variations on the lens/cornea theme in land vertebrates 81 -- Amphibious eyes 93 -- Invertebrate eyes with corneal optics 94 -- Summary 102 -- 6 Mirrors in animals 104 -- Mirrors in eyes 104 -- The physical optics of animal reflectors 114 -- Uses of multilayer reflectors in structures other than eyes 118 -- Summary 124 -- 7 Apposition compound eyes 125 -- Origins 125 -- A little history: apposition and neural superposition 127 -- Basic optics 131 -- Ecological variations in apposition design 142 -- Summary 155 -- 8 Superposition eyes 156 -- Introduction - the nature of superposition imagery 156 -- Refracting superposition 159 -- Superposition and afocal apposition 168 -- Reflecting superposition 172 -- Parabolic superposition 176 -- Summary 177 -- 9 Movements of the eyes 178 -- How humans acquire visual information 179 -- Are other animals like us? 183 -- Insect flight behaviours seen as eye movement 186 -- Why not let eyes wander? Some consequences of image motion 187 -- Exceptions: rotational scanning by one-dimensional retinae 193 -- Summary 200 -- Principal symbols used in the text 201 -- References 202 -- Index 215.".
- 2001036500 extent "xii, 221 p. :".
- 2001036500 identifier "0198509685 (pbk.)".
- 2001036500 identifier "0198575645".
- 2001036500 identifier 2001036500-d.html.
- 2001036500 identifier 2001036500.html.
- 2001036500 isPartOf "Oxford animal biology series".
- 2001036500 issued "2002".
- 2001036500 issued "2002.".
- 2001036500 language "eng".
- 2001036500 publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- 2001036500 subject "573.8/8 21".
- 2001036500 subject "Eye.".
- 2001036500 subject "QL949 .L26 2002".
- 2001036500 tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: 1 The origin of vision 1 -- The first eyes 1 -- What is an eye? 4 -- Why and from what did eyes evolve? 6 -- The course and pace of eye evolution 7 -- Did eyes evolve once or many times 10 -- Summary 15 -- 2 Light and vision 16 -- The nature of light 16 -- Light intensity 19 -- Contrast 24 -- Wavelength and colour 24 -- Polarization 29 -- Summary 32 -- 3 What makes a good eye? 33 -- Fundamentals 33 -- Resolution 36 -- Sensitivity 47 -- Conclusions 53 -- Summary 55 -- 4 Aquatic eyes: the evolution of the lens 56 -- Evolutionary origins 56 -- The pin-hole eye of Nautilus 57 -- Spherical lenses 59 -- Lenses with refractive index gradients 60 -- Eyes of fish and cephalopods 63 -- Matching eye to environment 66 -- Eyes with non-spherical lenses 69 -- Summary 71 -- 5 Lens eyes on land 72 -- A new optical surface 72 -- Basic optics of cornea and lens 73 -- Variations on the lens/cornea theme in land vertebrates 81 -- Amphibious eyes 93 -- Invertebrate eyes with corneal optics 94 -- Summary 102 -- 6 Mirrors in animals 104 -- Mirrors in eyes 104 -- The physical optics of animal reflectors 114 -- Uses of multilayer reflectors in structures other than eyes 118 -- Summary 124 -- 7 Apposition compound eyes 125 -- Origins 125 -- A little history: apposition and neural superposition 127 -- Basic optics 131 -- Ecological variations in apposition design 142 -- Summary 155 -- 8 Superposition eyes 156 -- Introduction - the nature of superposition imagery 156 -- Refracting superposition 159 -- Superposition and afocal apposition 168 -- Reflecting superposition 172 -- Parabolic superposition 176 -- Summary 177 -- 9 Movements of the eyes 178 -- How humans acquire visual information 179 -- Are other animals like us? 183 -- Insect flight behaviours seen as eye movement 186 -- Why not let eyes wander? Some consequences of image motion 187 -- Exceptions: rotational scanning by one-dimensional retinae 193 -- Summary 200 -- Principal symbols used in the text 201 -- References 202 -- Index 215.".
- 2001036500 title "Animal eyes / Michael F. Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson.".
- 2001036500 type "text".