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Origin of Eyes and Brains

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The evolution of the mechanism of visual perception must entail the separate elaboration of eyes and brain. But which came first ? Or is this a “hen and egg” problem ?

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GREGORY, R. Origin of Eyes and Brains. Nature 213, 369–372 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213369a0

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