QBI Neuroscience Seminars: Evolution of Animal Colour Vision

Event Details

Date:

Tuesday, 02 June 2015 - Tuesday, 02 June 2015

Time:

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Room:

QBI Level 7 Auditorium

UQ Location:

Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/neuroscience-seminars

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Professor Daniel Osorio, Professor of Neuroscience (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment, Sussex Neuroscience, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics) University of Sussex, UK

Title: Evolution of Animal Colour Vision

Abstract:
Evolutionary biologists have long been fascinated by the evolution of animal colour vision, and by the colour signals that animals and plants use for communication. Do signals and senses co-evolve as an efficient communication system, or do signals, such as the peacock’s ‘tail’, exploit innate colour preferences? Looking at primates, butterflies, bees and birds, I will outline our current understanding of the diversity of animal colour vision, how it serves the needs of vision in daily life, and what we can say now about the evolution of colour in communication signals.