Open Questions: We don’t really know anything, do we? Open questions in sensory biology

BMC Biology - Tập 15 - Trang 1-3 - 2017
Sönke Johnsen1
1Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, USA

Tóm tắt

Senses connect organisms to both the world and to each other, yet there is much we don’t know about them. Using examples drawn primarily from the author’s subfield of vision research, this article discusses five major open questions.

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