From day to night – a lesson in eye evolution with the owl monkey
From day to night – a lesson in eye evolution with the owl monkey
From day to night – a lesson in eye evolution with the owl monkey
The owl monkey has adapted its retina for nocturnal life simply by changing the timing of its development. It illustrates an increasingly familiar message – you can get big results by very subtly tweaking the way that bodies develop, without any need for large-scale tinkering.