Eyes AWLS

Use this Annotated Web Link Set (AWLS)
to explore the biology, diveristy and evolution of eyes on the internet.

(Updated September 2006)

Eye Lesson Plan

A popular lesson plan student activity for exploring eye structure and function.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/eye/
General Eye and Vision Biology

Vision Science: Find out what is going on in current research in human and animal vision.
http://www.visionscience.com

Seeing more than the eye does: explore how the brain helps shape what you see with fun exercises.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html

Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World: a complete guide to understanding how our sense of sight works with the nervous system, from how we see color to how we percieve motion.
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

BrainPop: a animated movie introduces vision and how the eye works
http://www.brainpop.com/health/senses/vision/index.weml

Cow Eye Dissection: with this virtual dissection you can learn abou the internal anatomy of the eye.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/

Color Matters
http://www.colormatters.com/optics.html

Visionary: A Dictionary of Vision
http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/laliden/WWW/Visionary/Visionary_top.html

Eye - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye

First Steps of Human Vision: a introduction to the physiology of vision.
http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.html

Ecology of Vision Lab: Learn how current research is determining how visual systems are adapted to certain environmental conditions.
http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/vision/vision.htm

Facts and Figures Concerning the Human Retina:
http://webvision.umh.es/webvision/facts.html

The Lund Vision Group explore the optics, evolution and design of eyes, and how eyes are adapted to the lifestyles and habitats of animals.
http://www.biol.lu.se/funkmorf/vision/index.html

Eye Evolution

Evolution of the lens-equipped eye.
http://www.mbl.edu/animals/Limulus/vision/Wald/vision.html

Evolution of the Eye - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye

Evolution of human eye: A look at the controversy that surrounds the evolution of eyes.
http://www.2think.org/eye.shtml

The Evolution of Color Vision: a step-by-step guide to how color vision evolved in animals.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/vision.html
How do
animals see?

Animal Vision: explores the differences in the visual worlds of animals as compared to humans.
http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/animaleyes/deyes.htm

Ever wonder why we see what we see or how eyes capture photons? Find out about the evolution of the eye in detail. http://www.karger.com/gazette/64/fernald/art_1_0.htm

A range of excellent reports on eye structure in aquatic and terrestrial species including the optics of the Box Jellyfish. http://www.biol.lu.se/funkmorf/vision/design.html

What do animals see?
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/17.html

Amazing Animal Sense: a list of cool facts of visual systems in animals.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amaze.html

Do Fish See Things We Don't? Current research says their rod pigments can see more than we do.
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/fish/fisheyes/fisheyes01.html

Who has the
sharpest vision?
Bird Brain: A good introduction to avian visual biology.
http://www.biology.eku.edu/RITCHISO/birdbrain2.html

Bird Vision: The basics on how birds see.
http://birding.miningco.com/hobbies/-birding/library/weekly/aa021498.htm

Evolution of Avian Visual System: How did their exceptional vision evolve?
http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/husband/default.htm
Nocturnal Vision
 Kalahari Night Vision: Explore the biology of night vision and how zoologists work in the dark.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/kalahari/
Vision above and Below Water

Introduction to a book that provides some of the evidence for eye evolution, including evolution of the four-eyed fish.
http://www.2think.org/cells.shtml

More about the amazing eye of Anableps anableps.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/tp.bridges/anableps2.html

Other fish, such as the species featured in this article, Pantodon, have evolved vision for above and below the water.
http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~saidel/saidel.html

How many eyes can one animals have?

Jumping Spider Vision: How does a spider use its 8 eyes? http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/health/how_and_why/062998.htm
Who has the best vision, insect or octopus?

Polarized vision in octopus
http://www.polarization.com/octopus/octopus.html

Insect Vision:
http://entomology.unl.edu/ent801/vision.html

Insect Eyes:
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr00/inseye.html

Polarized vision in insects:
http://www.polarization.com/eyes/eyes.html

What organism has the most ‘primitive’ eye?
A fascinating proposal for vision by a single celled organism such as a Euglenid.
http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/g-buehler/eyes.htm

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