Link: Ed Yong on the evolution of eyes
Ed Yong’s new piece in National Geographic on the evolution of eyes across different branches of animal life is a great one: “Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most E...
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The three-color primates
The Scientist has a nice article about the evolution of trichromatic vision in primates: “The Rainbow Connection”. Trichromacy in anthropoid primates is a gr...
Quote: Dalton's colorblindness
I’m writing up some text on the evolution of trichromatic vision, which I always present in my intro class. As I’m writing I got curious about the history of...
Human tetras
Ah, I was just writing about the evolution of color vision and this interesting article came across my Twitter (via Ed Yong): “The humans with super human vi...
Anthropology 105, lecture 7: Eyes
Out of all the lectures in the course, this was one of my favorites to put together. I return to the topic of evolutionary developmental biology, first raise...
Eye and visual cortex development
Neurophilosophy reviews an interesting paper that traces the directional preferences of visual cortex neurons in developing ferrets: