Re: Movies)

Beth,

Your knowledge is immense and what we would do without you (even if I
don't believe in Evolution it makes a great game mechanic <grin>) and
your biology knowledge.

What would cause multiple blind spots?	Might need to create a race like
that some day...

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious
This is my Science Fiction Alter Ego E-mail address.

On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:18:49 +1000 Beth Fulton
<beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au> writes:
>G'day,
>
> >As I understand it, the blind spot is present because the
> >visual nerves run "inside" the rods and cones. In octopus, on the
> >other hand, the nerves run "outside" the rods and cones, removing
> >the need for a blind spot.
>
>Yep this comes from the different ways the eye evolved, ours are an 
>extension of the brain while octopus' started as a pocket in the skin. 
>
>That's what's so potentially cool about alien physiology, they might 
>not 
>have a blind spot, but they may well have more than one, it all 
>depends on 
>how their eye evolved and from what.
>
>Cheers
>
>Beth
>
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