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The eye : a very short introduction
- Title
- The eye : a very short introduction / Michael F. Land.
- Author
- Land, Michael F.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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- Description
- xvii, 105 pages : illustrations; 18 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Very short introductions ; 388
- Uniform Title
- Very short introductions ; 388.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The first eyes -- Making better eyes -- The human eye -- The moving eye -- The third dimension -- Colour -- Seeing and the brain -- When vision fails
- ISBN
- 9780199680306
- 0199680302
- LCCN
- 40023906982
- OCLC
- 862792550
- ocn862792550
- SCSB-5757934
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries