Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved

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This book traces the extraordinary story of how eyes emerged, diversified, and perfected vision across the animal kingdom. From the first trilobite eye in the Cambrian explosion to the intricate optics of modern species, the author reveals how predation and survival pressures sparked a spectacular range of visual designs - at least ten distinct types, including mirror-based, scanning, and telephoto systems. Along the way, readers encounter spiders with tiny precision eyes, scallops rimmed with dozens of mirror-optic organs, deep-sea fish with tube-shaped vision, and birds whose acuity far surpasses our own. Drawing on evidence from early photoreceptive life 3.75 billion years ago to the beach-ball-sized eyes of ichthyosaurs, this book illuminates the eye as one of evolution’s most elegant achievements and a compelling testament to Darwinian principles.

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Vg in d/w.