Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

A research team has recreated the evolution of the eye in a physics simulation. The results show why nature chose such ...

Q: What fascinates you about the eye? A: The eye is an absolutely fascinating organ because it's an organ of extreme perfection, as Darwin has called it. We are able to adjust the focus, we are able ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...

a. the compound eyes of a dragonfly. b. Microscopic image of the insect compound eye. c. the profile of the dragonfly compound eye. d. Schematic illustration of the fabrication of 3D artificial ...

The compound eye of lepidoptera ; approach from organic evolution / by N. Yagi, N. Koyama Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

Bee researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) headed by Professor Dr Martin Beye have identified a new gene in honeybees, which is responsible for the dimorphic eye differentiation ...