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The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

I had always heard eyes evolved on multiple separate occasions. An octopus eye is anatomically fairly similar to a human one, but its evolution was on a completely separate path.