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1. CHAPTER 9: WHEN EVOLUTION BEGINS TO SEE.

Subjects
CONVERGENT evolution, EYE, OPSINS, CEPHALOPODA, VERTEBRATES, CRYSTALLINS
Abstract

Chapter 9 of the book "The Runes of Evolution: How the Universe Became Self-Aware" by Simon Conway Morris is presented. It discussses the evolutionary convergence with regard to the camera eyes of cephalopods and vertebrates and opsins. Topics include the features of opsins, the absence of functional opsins in most primitive animals, and the similarities in the molecular machinery of crystallins and opsins.

Published
2015

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