The nerves of eye and orbit are enlivened by Sherrington, and the chapter describing retinal function recapitulates the pioneering studies of Schultze, Golgi and Cajal. Even eye research ...

The retina is a layered structure that lines the inner surface of the eye. It consists of layers of neurons: light-sensitive photoreceptor cells, bipolar cells, horizontal cells, amacrine cells ...

"Remarkably, it also reveals that the structure and function of compound eyes has barely changed in half a billion years." The right eye of the fossil, which was unearthed in Estonia, was partly ...