When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is often linked to lifestyle: predators such as lions tend to have ...

Prologue : Molecular genesis -- The age of first cellular life -- The age of complex cellular life -- Eukaryotes organize and metazoans arise -- Early animals prepare the ground -- Vision's big bang ...

Gibbons focus strongly on eyes, especially other gibbons’ eyes, offering clues about the evolution of primate social ...

Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist.

Q: What fascinates you about the eye? A: The eye is an absolutely fascinating organ because it's an organ of extreme perfection, as Darwin has called it. We are able to adjust the focus, we are able ...