Eyes to see: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature [Audiobook] download free by Michael Land
- Listen audiobook: Eyes to see: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature
- Author: Michael Land
- Release date: 2019/9/4
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780198747710
- Rating: 7.98 of 10
- Votes: 244
- Review by: Chase Brock
- Review rating: 9.37 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/5
- Duration: 2H35M32S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, MPEG4, OGG, MP4, WAV, MP3 (compression TAR.BZ, CBR, 7-ZIP, RAR, ZIP, TBZ2)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M35S (3.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight it seems absurd that the human eye could have evolved by natural selection. But we now know far more about vision, the many times it has independently evolved in nature, and the astonishing variety of ways to see. The human eye, with a lens forming an image on a sensitive retina, represents just one. Scallops, shrimps, andlobsters all use mirrors in different ways. Jumping spiders scan with their front-facing eyes to check whether the object in front is an insect to eat, another spider to mate with, or a predator to avoid. Mantis shrimps can even measure the polarization of light.Animal eyes are amazing structures, often involving precision optics and impressive information processing, mainly using wet protein - not the substance an engineer would choose for such tasks. In Eyes to See, Michael Land, one of the leading world experts on vision, explores the varied ways in which sight has evolved and is used in the natural world, and describes some of the ingenious experiments researchers have used to uncover its secrets. He also discusses human vision, includinghis experiments on how our eye movements help us to do everyday tasks, as well as skilled ones such as sight-reading music or driving. He ends by considering the fascinating problem of how the constantly shifting images from our eyes are converted in the brain into the steady and integrated conscious view ofthe world we experience.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Animal Physiology, Popular Science, Biology, Life Sciences, Natural History Books, Zoology & Animal Sciences
- Download servers: SpiderOak, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, MEGA, Torrent. Compressed in TAR.BZ, CBR, 7-ZIP, RAR, ZIP, TBZ2
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 20.66 USD
- Dimensions: 163x243x22mm
- Weight: 420g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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