Mindforth

[Jerry Avins]

"Richard S. Norman" wrote:
> 
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> >
> If you are trying to make an evolutionary argument, fish are certainly
> relevant.  The human eye is the primate eye is the mammalian eye is
> the tetrapod eye is the vertebrate eye.  There are all the same basic
> design.  It was the fish who built it backwards!  (Well, not modern
> fish, but aquatic chordates nonetheless.)

Absolutely!
> 
> The cephalopod eye is simply an example of a complex, camera eye
> that is build "properly", with the light first striking the receptor
> cells.  It is used to demonstrate that, if there are two ways to do
> something, nature will try both regarless of which is supposedly
> "superior".

I think that's two glib. I assume that there is at least one possible
alternative which has never been realized.

Jerry
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