WHY WOMAN'S EYES SEE SO MUCH THAN MAN'S.

The Eyes Have It

It is interesting to know that the women's eyes' see much more than the men counterparts

Before exposing you to the facts of the women's eyes seeing more let me show you what the eye is.

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The Eyes Have It

The eye is an extension of the brain that sits outside the skull. The retina at the back of the eyeball contains about 130 million rod-shaped cells called photoreceptors to deal with black and white, and seven million cone-shaped cells to handle colour. The X chromosomes provides these colour cells.

Women have Two X chromosomes which gives them a greater variety of cones than men and this difference is noticeable in how women describe colours in greater details.
A man will use basic colour descriptions like red, blue and green, but a woman will talk of bone, aqua, teal, mauve and apple green, etc etc.

Human Eyes

The human eyes have noticeable whites which other primates lack. This allows for the movement of the eye and the direction of the gaze which are vital to human face-to-face communication. Women's eyes display white than men's eyes because close range communication is an integral part of female bonding, and more white allows a greater range of eye signals to be sent and received in the direction that the eyes move.

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This type of eye communication is not critical to most other species of animal and so they have little or no whites and they rely on body language as the main form of communication.

Where are woman's Eyes Located?

In the Back of her Head?, not quite, but close

Women not only have a greater variety of cones in the retina, they also have wider peripheral vision than men.
As a nest-defender, a woman has brain software that allows her to receive an arc of at least 45 degree clear vision to each side of her head, and above and below her nose. Many women's peripheral vision is effective up to almost 180 degree. A man's eyes are larger than a woman's eyes and his brain configures them for a type of long distance tunnel vision, which means that he can see clearly and accurately directly in front of him over greater or longer distances, almost like a pair of binoculars.

The proof

Men - Have Tunnel Vision
Women - Have Wider Peripheral
As hunters, a man need vision that would allow him zero in and pursue targets in the distance. He evolved almost with blinkered vision so that he would not be distracted from targets. This is why modern men can find their way effortlessly to a distant pub but can never find things in fridges, cupboard and drawers.

Whereas, a woman needed eyes to allow a wide arc of vision so that she could monitor any predator sneaking up on the nest.
In 1997, there 4132 child pedestrians killed in the UK on the roads, out of this number, 2640 were boys and girls were 1492, this was largely due to poorer peripheral vision of the male child.

Men and Ogling

Wider peripheral vision is the reason why women rarely get caught ogling men
Almost every man has been accused at some time time or the other of ogling the opposite sex, but few women receive the same complaint from men. Researchers everywhere report that women look at men's bodies as much as, and sometimes more than men look at women's. Yet women, with their superior peripheral vision, rarely get caught.

CONCLUSION

The Range Of Vision
The arc of a person's peripheral vision can be increased, especially under life-threatening circumstances.

Case Study

During a riot at Australia's Perth prison in 1999, inmates held several prison officers hostage.
They announced that unless their demands were met, the officers would be killed. The prison officer, Lance Bremen reported that, until that time, he had "typical male tunnel vision". Having survived the incident, his peripheral vision had increased to almost 180 degrees. Because of the trauma of the event and the fear of being killed, his brain had expanded his vision range to monitor anyone trying to sneak up on him.
You can increase your peripheral vision range with practice just as fighter pilots do.
However, in all, the WOMAN has peripheral vision, being the reason for her seeing much more than man.

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