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Vision and the Evolution of Man

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The Vertebrate Visual System

Its Origin, Structure, and Function and its Manifestations in Disease, with an Analysis of its Role in the Life of Animals and in the Origin of Man. Preceded by a Historical Review of Investigations of the Eye, and of the Visual Pathways and Centres of the Brain. By Stephen Polyak. Edited by Heinrich Klüver. Pp. xviii + 1390 (546 figures). (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1957.) £16 17s. 6d.

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PICKFORD, R. Vision and the Evolution of Man. Nature 181, 1429–1430 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811429a0

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