Taking my cue from The Panda’s Thumb, I have downloaded and merged all 26 of the items (most of them original research) available freely at SpringerLink. This is a special issue of the journal “Evolution: Education and Outreach” focusing on the evolution of the eye.

You can download each article separately from SpringerLink, or get the whole document here.

Contents:

1. Editorial,
   Gregory Eldredge and Niles Eldredge
2. Introduction,
   T. Ryan Gregory
3. Casting an Eye on Complexity,
   Niles Eldredge
4. The Evolution of Complex Organs,
   T. Ryan Gregory
5. Opening the “Black Box”: The Genetic and Biochemical Basis of Eye Evolution,
   Todd H. Oakley and M. Sabrina Pankey
6. A Genetic Perspective on Eye Evolution: Gene Sharing, Convergence and Parallelism,
   Joram Piatigorsky
7. The Origin of the Vertebrate Eye,
   Trevor D. Lamb, Edward N. Pugh and Shaun P. Collin
8. Early Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye—Fossil Evidence,
   Gavin C. Young
9. Charting Evolution’s Trajectory: Using Molluscan Eye Diversity to Understand Parallel and Convergent Evolution,
   Jeanne M. Serb and Douglas J. Eernisse
10. Evolution of Insect Eyes: Tales of Ancient Heritage, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, Remodeling, and Recycling,
    Elke K. Buschbeck and Markus Friedrich
11. Exceptional Variation on a Common Theme: The Evolution of Crustacean Compound Eyes,
    Thomas W. Cronin and Megan L. Porter
12. The Causes and Consequences of Color Vision,
    Ellen J. Gerl and Molly R. Morris
13. Evolution of Extraordinary Eyes: The Cases of Flatfishes and Stalk-eyed Flies,
    Carl Zimmer
14. Suboptimal Optics: Vision Problems as Scars of Evolutionary History,
    Steven Novella
15. Bringing Homologies Into Focus,
    Anastasia Thanukos
16. Misconceptions About the Evolution of Complexity,
    Andrew J. Petto and Louise S. Mead
17. Losing Sight of Regressive Evolution,
    Monika Espinasa and Luis Espinasa
18. Relevance in Education?,
    David Zeigler
19. Building Stone Treasure Troves,
    Sidney Horenstein
20. Margaret Wertheim: Complexity, Evolution and Hyperbolic Space,
    Mick Wycoff
21. Intelligently Discussing Design: Jones and Reiss’s Teaching about Scientific Origins: Taking Account of Creationism,
    Michael Jordan
22. Education in Evolution and Science Through Laboratory Activities,
    Telmo Pievani and Emanuele Serrelli
23. Jay Hosler, An Evolutionary Novelty: Optical Allusions,
    Todd H. Oakley
24. Paleontology and Evolution in the News,
    Sidney Horenstein
25. Pikaia (http://www.pikaia.eu): A New Way to Inform on Evolution in Italy,
    Paolo Coccia, Mauro Mandrioli, Chiara Ceci and Telmo Pievani
26. Editor’s Corner: Some Thoughts on “Adaptive Peaks,” “Dobzhansky’s Dilemma”—and How to Think About Evolution,
    Niles Eldredge

Enjoy!