The intricacy and seeming perfection of the eye, both as an object of anatomical beauty and as a working machine, have worried and intrigued scientists, philosophers and zealots, especially during ...

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 ...

They also tend to have pupils that open more widely in low light. So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light than human eyes do. After the light passes through the pupil, it is focused by ...