Re: Wanted: 'Obscure' 1889 Paper on Trilobite Eyes & The Fibonacci Series


John Latter wrote:
> Can anyone help me find the 'obscure' paper by JM Clarke that Niles
> Eldredge refers to on page 64 of "Time Frames"? A scan of the page is
> available here:
>
> http://members.aol.com/jorolat/trilobite.html
>
> In fact I would be grateful for any information regarding the
> appearance of the fibonacci series in the lens arrangement of
> trilobite eyes!


Don't know if this will help, but there are 2 books that deal with
trilobite eyes, and which might have useful links. as I recall, the
2nd has a description of the different types of eyes in T.

Trilobite Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey, 2002.

In the Blink of an Eye, by Andrew Parker, 2003.

The latter book puts forth the thesis that the rapid appearance
of new species during the cambrian explosion might partly be
accounted for by the evolution of eyes [ie, vision] in trilobites.





>
> NB apparently this is not the paper (although I haven't read it myself
> yet):
>
> CLARKE, J. M. 1889. The structure and development of the visual area
> in the trilobite Phacops rana Green. Journal of Morphology, 2:253270.
>
> --
>
> John Latter
>
> Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Adaptive (Stationary-Phase) Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
> http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
>
> 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech


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