When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

As far as evolution goes, that’s a blink of ... If a fly wanted to see with the same resolution as a human, its eye would need to be a meter wide. “Insects and crustaceans have become so ...

Human eyes can’t decipher individual pixels from far away—this video shows why. A version of this story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Short for “picture ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

XPANCEO founders on building the first interface designed for the body, not the screen — and why human–tech integration is ...

An insect eye looks so different from a human eye that one would assume intuitively that this must have arisen quite differently in evolution. There was a separate sort of construction ...

In 1994, Prof Dan-Eric Nilsson of Lund University in Sweden modelled the evolution of a simple layer of light receptors, incapable of seeing much more than light versus dark, to an eye capable of ...

If I use 1 arcminute instead, the scale factor is smaller, about 3438. So let’s convert that to inches to see how small a pixel the human eye can resolve at a distance of one foot: 12 inches / 3438 = ...

This video from Wired shows every type of eye in the animal kingdom. All kinds of eye facts are covered. For example, the video explains why some animals have horizontal pupils, while others have ...

In this film, Dr Ben Price explains the intricate workings of human eyes. By comparing our eyes to those of dragonflies, he reveals humanity's unique way of seeing. 1. The image projected onto the ...

An insect eye looks so different from a human eye that one would assume intuitively that this must have arisen quite differently in evolution. There was a separate sort of construction, which was ...