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What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
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What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 12:55 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...111538.htm

Quote:Most animals react to light and have developed a very sophisticated way of seeing complex images so that they can function in their surroundings. Good examples include insects' compound eyes and the human eye. Charles Darwin and other evolutionary biologists were bewildered by the eye's complexity and wondered how this kind of structure could have evolved through natural selection.

But some creatures, such as sea urchins, can react to light even though they do not have eyes. Previous studies of sea urchins have shown that they have a large number of genes linked to the development of the retina, which is the light-sensitive tissue in the human eye. This means that sea urchins have several genes that are coded for a widely occurring eye protein, opsin.


Fundies will be back to proclaim how the human eye is the pinnacle of "creation" of course.

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What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?

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What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 12:55 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 1:08 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 2:54 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Rayaan - September 12, 2011 at 3:38 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Rayaan - September 12, 2011 at 3:48 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 4:03 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Rayaan - September 12, 2011 at 4:09 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 4:32 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 6:40 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Justtristo - September 12, 2011 at 9:44 pm
RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all? - by Minimalist - September 12, 2011 at 10:09 pm

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