The whites of their eyes: The evolution of the distinctive sclera  in humans

dc.contributor.author	Bickham, Joanna
dc.date.accessioned	2010-03-14T23:15:18Z
dc.date.available	2010-03-14T23:15:18Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.citation	Bickham, Joanna. 2008. The whites of their eyes: The evolution of the distinctive sclera in humans. -- Lambda Alpha Journal, v.38, p.20-29	en
dc.identifier.issn	0047-3928
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2357
dc.description.abstract	Two major studies which are explored in this paper concern the comparative morphology of a wide range of primates, how these differences affect behavior, and what inferences one can make regarding the adaptive reasons behind those differences. Hiromi Kobayashi and Shiro Kohshima conducted a study in 1998 that measured the eyes of 88 species of primates using computer-aided image analysis to determine the differences between species and to examine how these differences correlate with biological and environmental variability (Kobayashi & Kohshima 2001). Michael Tomasello and associates have carried out numerous studies using apes, monkeys, and children that explore issues relating to cognition and communication; this body of work is integrated into the “cooperative eye hypothesis,” which will be explored in the body of this paper (Tomasello et al. 2007:316).	en
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dc.language	en_US	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LAJ	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.38	en
dc.subject	Eye -- Evolution	en
dc.subject	Sclera	en
dc.subject	Human eye	en
dc.subject	Biological anthropology	en
dc.subject	Primate eye	en
dc.subject	Tomasello, Michael	en
dc.subject	Kobayashi, Hiromi	en
dc.subject	Kohshima, Shiro	en
dc.subject	Eye -- Apes	en
dc.title	The whites of their eyes: The evolution of the distinctive sclera in humans	en
dc.type	Article	en