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Evolution of visual behaviour in animals; evolution of the eye - fromthe light sensitive cephalic organ of nemertoid worms to the vertebrateeye; the eye of Copelia - tectile and visual scanning as primitivemeans of form perception; the response to light in prokaryotes andprotozoa; evolution of the compond eye and visual systems ofarthropods; evolution of the eye and visual system of molluscs;evolution of visual pigments and photoreceptors; evolution of thevertebrate retina (including - phylogenetic differences in themorphology and function of retinal ganglion and other nerve cells andtheir possible relationship to differences in visual behaviour);morphological and functional evolution of pretectum, dorsal thalamusand visual cortex; nucleus isthmi or parabigeminal nucleus; nucleusrotundus and pulvinar; visual tracking and the cerebral control ofgaze; response to visual shadows. Lateral inhibition and contrastsensitivity and the subsequent development of movement and directionalsensitivity; the detection of visual form; evolution of colour vision;evolution of depth perception (binocular vision and stereopsis); thephylogenetic segregation of movement, colour and pattern systems withinthe brain.