Humans Owe Their Eyes to a Tiny One-Eyed “Cyclops”

Humans Owe Their Eyes to a Tiny One-Eyed “Cyclops”

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Humans Owe Their Eyes to a Tiny One-Eyed “Cyclops”A single ancient eye may explain how modern vision and the pineal gland evolved in vertebrates. Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago. New findings on eye evolution highlight how this unusual feature played a key role […]

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