One-eyed darwinism

Cyclopia: the one-eyed fetus

A 36 year-old female patient gravida 2 para 1, with no particular past medical history consulted her gynecologist at 14 weeks' gestation for pelvic pain. Her first pregnancy was uneventful and she did not take any specific drugs prior or during her pregnancy. Consanguinity and hereditary diseases were denied. Ultrasonography revealed a retention image measuring 67,2 mm with no cardiac pulsation...

Darwinism and social Darwinism.

A One-eyed Self Learning Robot Manipulator

A self-learning, adaptive control system for a robot arm using a vision system in a feedback loop is described. The task of the control system is to position the end-eeector as accurate as possible directly above a target object, so that it can be grasped. The camera of the vision system is positioned in the end-eeector and the visual information is used directly to control the robot. Two strat...

Contrast sensitivity in one-eyed subjects

The effects of early monocular form deprivation on the developing mammalian visual system, and the anatomical and physiological consequences of early monocular enucleation, suggest that the remaining eye of human subjects who had the other eye removed early during development might be capable of supernormal performance. To test this inference, the achromatic contrast sensitivity of the remainin...

Darwinism