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SUMMARY:Evolution of the Eye - Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson\, Lund Universit
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DTSTART:20190201T173000Z
DTEND:20190201T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Eyes abound in the animal kingdom. Some are large as basketbal
 ls and others are just fractions of a millimetre. Eyes also come in many d
 ifferent types\, such as the compound eyes of insects\, the mirror eyes of
  scallops or our own camera-like eyes. Common to all animal eyes is that t
 hey serve the same fundamental role of collecting external information for
  guiding the animal’s behaviour. But behaviours vary tremendously across
  the animal kingdom\, and it turns out this is the key to understand how e
 yes evolved. In the lecture we will take a tour from the first animals tha
 t could only sense the presence of light\, to those that saw the first cru
 de image of the world and finally to animals that use acute vision for int
 eracting with other animals. Amazingly\, all these stages of eye evolution
  still exist in animals living today\, and this is how we can unravel the 
 evolution of behaviours that has been the driving force behind eye evoluti
 on.\n\n \nDan-E. Nilsson is a professor of functional zoology at Lund Univ
 ersity in Sweden. He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences\
 , and several other academic societies. He is the head of The Lund Vision 
 Group\, which is an internationally leading centre for comparative vision 
 research. He has co-authored the popular textbook Animal Eyes published by
  Oxford University Press.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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