Sentence examples for evolution of the visual from inspiring English sources

Its art department is blessed by being part of a university campus with many allied disciplines engaged in research that has direct relevance for the evolution of the visual culture of our time".

Terai, et al. (2006) demonstrated that divergent evolution of the visual system in two clades of cichlid fishes coincides with divergence in male breeding coloration.

Finally, we found that our results would allow us to relate the evolution of the visual patterns appearing in the process with different physical properties of the system.

Their evolution will be discussed below in conjunction with the evolution of the visual opsins.

To place retinoid chemical transformations in response to light in a proper context, we must review the evolution of the visual system.

Because the same species also differ in male breeding coloration, and because the most common breeding colors match the major peaks in the retinal absorption spectra, this led to the hypothesis that the evolution of the visual system might play a key role in the speciation process [ 10].

The examples we have presented here represent many of the bewildering types of eyes found in the crustaceans, illustrating how fundamentally different optical principles can be derived from each other and highlighting both our current understanding of the evolution of this visual diversity and the mysteries that still remain to be uncovered.

The evolution of the insect visual system has been far more versatile.

Thus, the polychromatic visual system of the lungfish is at odds with its known behavioural characteristics and raises a number of interesting questions with regard to the neuroethology of the lungfish, the function and utility of coloured oil droplets and the evolution of the tetrapod visual system.

By explicitly modeling the evolution of visual pigments and visual perception, we wish to examine if, and under which conditions, speciation within a continuous population can occur when no other causes of divergent selection are invoked.

The evolution of the red-green visual subsystem in trichromatic primates has been linked to foraging advantages, specifically the detection of either ripe fruits or young leaves amid mature foliage, and to the intraspecific socio-sexual communication, namely the signal of the male rank, the mate choice and the reproductive strategies in females.