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The article mentions "the perfection of the human eye. The human eye is far from perfect. Eagles and falcons have much better eyes than we do.


29 posted on 11/03/2004 7:26:47 PM PST by Wacka
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To: Wacka
Eagles and falcons have much better eyes than we do.

Giant squids seem to have better eyes too. The evolutionary path is somewhat different though.

36 posted on 11/03/2004 8:31:11 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Wacka
The article mentions "the perfection of the human eye. The human eye is far from perfect. Eagles and falcons have much better eyes than we do.

If the human eye is perfect, why does it go to crap after about forty years (he wrote while peering through his bifocals)...

Plus I'm miffed that I can't see ultraviolet, my vision is inferior to an insect's. "Perfect" my butt.

186 posted on 11/08/2004 8:27:43 PM PST by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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