LIZARD “THIRD EYE” SHEDS LIGHT ON EVOLUTION OF COLOR VISION

Johns Hopkins Medicine Media Relations and Public Affairs Media Contact: Audrey Huang 410-614-5105; [email protected] April 14, 2006 LIZARD “THIRD EYE” SHEDS LIGHT ON EVOLUTION OF COLOR VISION Lizards have given Johns Hopkins researchers a tantalizing clue to the evolutionary origins of light-sensing cells in people and other species. Published in the March 17 issue of Science, their lizard study