Eyevolution: convergent evolution in 3 minutes

Check out our entry into the NESCent Evolution Video Competition 2013!

'Eyevolution' looks beyond the traditional short-sighted approached to myopia to explain how the convergent evolution of the human and squid eye could help scientists understand human visual disorders.


'Eyevolution' NESCent 2013 from Emma Goodman on Vimeo.

3-minutes of Eyevolution

On-set with the Eyevolution crew. 

The Eyevolution crew have spent the last few weeks preparing our entry into the NESCent Evolutionary Film Competition. Today, we wipe the sweat from our tired, myopic eyes, and step away from behind our editing software. Our 3 minute has been submitted, and now we wait... 

NESCent is a non-profit science centre devoted to cross-disciplinary research into evolution, with a strong education and outreach focus. With Eyevolution's converging interest in communicating evolution, myopia, and cephalopods, we hope that we tick all the boxes. We are excited by the opportunity to share our evolving cinematography efforts for a like-minded cause. 

Stay tuned for the final video release! 

Reducing the complexity of eyevolution

The eye is a complex organ, and it is difficult to imagine how the eye could have evolved in the step-by-step process of evolution.

Here, we reduce the complexity of eye evolution. This short animation demonstrates how the human eye could have evolved from a flat pit of light sensitive cells, to the complex visual organs that we see today.

Further viewing:
Richard Dawkins demonstrates the evolution of the eye