Thread: Evolving Senses
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Old 11-25-2007, 05:21 PM
Taraz Taraz is offline
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Default Re: Evolving Senses

Actually many plants can "see" light and shift toward it. I realize they don't have eyes, but they can react to light and move.

It seems like something similar could have happened at the outset of animal vision. First it was simple reactivity to light and dark, and then to different wavelengths of light, and then to specific boundaries in the source of the light (edge detection), etc.
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