New insight into primate eye evolution
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 08:56
in Biology & Nature
Researchers comparing the foetal development of the eye of the owl monkey with that of the capuchin monkey have found that only a minor difference in the timing of cell proliferation can explain the multiple anatomical differences in the two kinds of eyes...
Read the whole article on Science Centric
More from Science Centric
Related
- New insight into primate eye evolutionMon, 18 May 2009, 17:51:28 EDT
- Small evolutionary shifts make big impacts -- like developing night visionWed, 20 May 2009, 17:22:33 EDT
- Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey callsMon, 19 Oct 2009, 15:50:09 EDT
- Yerkes researchers find monkeys enjoy giving to othersMon, 25 Aug 2008, 17:36:44 EDT
- Researchers find an evolutionarily preserved signature in the primate brainFri, 20 Jun 2008, 0:28:23 EDT