Evolution: do the eyes have it?

Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

Introduction

Charles Darwin expressed wonder at the eye and pondered if it could not be explained by evolution by natural selection, then his theory would be declared false. Since then much has been written on scenarios for evolution of the eye. In the mollusks there is represented a very plausible series of eyes that might correspond to stages in evolution from pin-hole camera in the nautilus to the camera eye of octopus that rivals in complexity the vertebrate eye. The eye has come up again in debates on Intelligent Design.

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