Evolution's witness: how eyes evolved

Prologue : Molecular genesis

The age of first cellular life

The age of complex cellular life

Eukaryotes organize and metazoans arise

Early animals prepare the ground

Vision's big bang blazes the trail

The age of arthropods

Vertebrates gain a foothold

Shelly fauna rule the seas

The piscine eye develops

The piscine eye matures

Insects arise to fly

Stealth, speed, and predation

The age of tetrapods and terrestrials

Terrestrial life flourishes

Reptiles push the ocular envelope

March of the archosaurs

Dinosaurs and their companions

Cephalopods change direction

Snakes arise from the ground

The age of birds : the eye taken to great heights

Pollinators coevolve

Mammalia diversifies

The age of mammals

Planktonic soup evolves

Mammals return to the sea

The visual witness and a conscious brain.