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Physiology of Photoreceptor Organs pp 449–482Cite as

Optical Properties of Vertebrate Eyes

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Starting with a simple photodetector in protozoa and some of the earliest multicellular invertebrates, evolution has fashioned very elaborate visual organs. For an understanding of these organs and of the way they tie in with the rest of the organism, it needs to be considered at the outset what kind of information they extract from the photic energy impinging on them.

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Westheimer, G. (1972). Optical Properties of Vertebrate Eyes. In: Fuortes, M.G.F. (eds) Physiology of Photoreceptor Organs. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65340-7_12

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