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CHAPTER II. The Evidence of the Organs of Vision

The Origin of Vertebrates · Walter Holbrook Gaskell — chapter 2 of 19 · ~56 words · public domain

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THE EVIDENCE OF THE ORGANS OF VISION

Different kinds of eye--Simple and compound retinas--Upright and inverted retinas--Median eyes--Median or pineal eyes of Ammocoetes and their optic ganglia--Comparison with other median eyes--Lateral eyes of vertebrates compared with lateral eyes of crustaceans-- Peculiarities of the lateral eye of the lamprey--Meaning of the optic diverticula--Evolution of vertebrate eyes--Summary 68

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