xx, 405 pages : illustrations )some color( ; 27 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Light and the optical environment -- Visual pigments and photoreceptors -- The optical building blocks of eyes -- The eye designs of the animal kingdom -- Spatial vision -- Color vision -- Polarization vision -- Vision in attenuating media -- Motion vision and eye movements -- Vision in dim light -- Visual orientation and navigation -- Signals and camouflage
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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، Vision
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، Animal ecology
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، Physiology, Comparative
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Evolution ، Eye
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
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612
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8/4
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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QP
475
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C76
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
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AU
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Thomas W. Cronin, Sonke Johnsen, N. Justin Marshall, and Eric J. Warrant