Sentence examples for evolution of the eye from inspiring English sources

However, this all-or-nothing approach to the evolution of the eye fails to take account of the range of mechanisms and sophistication of vision across the spectrum of animals on earth through time.

I Origins treads a similarly (over?) ambitious path, building its three-way romance around scientific investigations of the evolution of the eye, which will, according to Michael Pitt's cocky rationalist, disprove the existence of God.

Next issue, guest-edited by Dr. T. Ryan Gregory, will be devoted to the evolution of the eye and the question of the evolution of complexity.

The developmental sequence that occurs during the formation of our own eye bears a close similarity to the scenario that we have put forward in Fig. 1 for the evolution of the eye.

Although based on a very narrow sampling of animal diversity, it is clear that most references to the evolution of "the" eye relate to the chambered, camera-type lens eyes found in humans and other vertebrates, as well as in cephalopod mollusks, some annelid worms, and various arthropods including spiders.

Past examples of this approach have yielded special issues on the evolution of the eye (our complexity issue) guest-edited by Dr. T. Ryan Gregory, the transitional fossils issue edited by Dr. Donald Prothero, and an issue dedicated to evolution education guest-edited by Dr. Kristin Jenkins of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.

To conclude, diel activity patterns emerge as a major factor in the morphological evolution of the eyes of both terrestrial amniotes and teleost reef fish.

Diel activity pattern has been found to strongly influence the morphological evolution of the eyes of terrestrial vertebrates [ 23, 25, 27, 28].

Could it be that we have something like the evolution of the mammalian eye, where primitive existent eyes in other organisms suggest that selection can and does work on proto models (as it were), refining features which have the same function if not as efficient as more sophisticated models?

Consider, for example, a masterful paper entitled, "Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina, and eye cup," published by Trevor Lamb of Australian National University and his colleagues in the December 2007 issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience (Lamb et al. 2007).

Nevertheless, there is evidence for the evolution of this eye from a more typical insect compound eye.