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ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Biology@mander.xyz · 5 days ago

The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes

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The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes

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ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Biology@mander.xyz · 5 days ago
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The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two. The remnants of those extra eyes persist in the human brain today as the pineal organ, which is deep inside our brain, regulating our sleep cycle, but no longer forms images.
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    I read that as “Oscar Wilde as mother fuckers”, which struck me as very odd.

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