Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Arboreal Life and the Evolution of the Human Eye: A Revised Publication of the Bowman Lecture Delivered Before the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom in May, 1921
The in?uence of the environment in the production of changes in the visual organs is a large and interesting sub ject - so large that it is only possible to attempt dealing with a comparatively small part of it in this lecture. The part most full of interest to this society must necessarily be that which concerns the higher mammals. A study of the morphology of their visual organs shows that there is a very close resemblance between those of man and monkeys, and some very wide differences between those of monkeys and the lower mammals. The chief cause of these marked changes is, I propose to show, to be found in the alteration in environment produced by the adoption of arboreal life.
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