Seeing Through Yourself: The Fundamental Reason For Binocular Vision

Monday, August 30, 2010 - 12:14 in Biology & Nature

There aren’t many cyclopses in nature, and those that exist don’t live up to expectation. They tend to be crustaceans like water fleas and another aptly named “cyclops” (see left photo below) or early invertebrate fish-like ancestors of ours like lancelets. Getting these animals tipsy and stabbing them through the eye with a stake turns out to be much less impressive than when Odysseus did it. read more

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