Why Human Beings Can't See as Well as We Do

Human beings have excellent vision. Hardly any creatures see color, but we do. The only other animals that can see as well as us are birds of prey. For mammals, man, we can like you wouldn't believe. And the anthro primates as well as we can see much better than our closest primate relatives. But there's a woman in california who seems perhaps to have solved that. Her name is lynne isabel and she was very interested in how human beings develop vision. She knew that our tree dwelling ancestors, millions of years ago, were frequently preyed upon by snakes. Our visual system is particularly good at picking up the patterns of camouflage that snakes use