In The Blink Of An Eye (49 page)

spherical aberration, lenses

spiders; colour; evolution from trilobites; eyeless; eyes; light perception

spines, defences

sponges; body plan; Burgess Shale fossils; colours; Precambrian fossils; senses; spines

Spriggs, Reginald

squid

stag beetles

stalked eyes

starfish

stereograms

stereoscopic vision

stick insects

stimulus production: adaptation to; day/night differences;
see also
selection pressures

Stoddart, Helen

stonefish

strepsipterans

stromatolites

structural colours; calcite; in fossils; functions; liquid crystals; opal; thin films;
see also
diffraction gratings; iridescence

sucker fish

sun, luminosity

sunlight
see
light

supernovae

superposition eyes

survival, laws of

Sutton, Mark

Sweden

Sydney

Sydney funnel web spider

tadpoles

Tasmania

Tasmanian tiger

taste, sense of

taxonomy
see
classification of animals

teeth: placental mammals; predators

television: colour; evolution of news media

temperature: carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere; detectors; nocturnal animals; and origins of life; Snowball Earth hypothesis

Thames, river

theropod dinosaurs

thin films

Thomas, Lewis

3D vision

three-dimensional models, fossils

thrombolites

tigers

timescale: evolution of eye; geological

toads

touch, sense of

Towe, Kenneth

trace fossils

transparency

traps, scavenger

trilobites; antennae; bite marks; and Cambrian explosion; colour; defences; extinctioneyeless; eyes; feeding methods; handedness; healing ability; proto-trilobites; quartz lenses; time ranges

turkeys

turtles

ultrasound

ultraviolet light; invisible patterns; protection from; quartz lenses and

unicorn fish

United Nations

United States of America

upside-down flies

Utrecht University

Valentine, James

Vannier, Jean

velvet worms

vibration detectors

vision: adaptation to; at night; brain and; as cause of Cambrian explosion; colour; stereoscopic; as survival tactic; in ultraviolet light;
see also
eyes

visual appearance;
see also
colour; external hard parts

Vogt, Klaus

volcanoes

von Bekesy, Georg

Vostok

Walcott, Charles Doolittle

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Walossek, Dieter

warning colouration

warriors, use of colour

water: light under; vision under;
see also
oceans

water lilies

Watson's Bay, Sydney

wavelengths: colour; light

Wedgwood, Tom

Welch, Victoria

whales

White, Rev. Gilbert

Whittington, Harry

Wickramasinghe, Chandra

Wiener, Otto

Wilberforce, Samuel

wildebeest

winkles

wolf spiders

Wollemi pines

Woodford, James

woodlice

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Wookey Hole

Wootton Bassett

worms

Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park

Yoho National Park

Young, Thomas

Yue Zhao

Zhang Xi-guang

Zharkov family

Andrew Parker received his Ph.D. from Macquarie University in Sydney while working in marine biology for the Australian Museum. He became a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford University's Department of Zoology in 1999, and is an Ernest Cook Research Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and University of Sydney. He has published numerous scientific papers on topics as diverse as optics in nature, biomimetics and evolution. He lives in Oxfordshire, England.

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