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Re: the eye

By: faul in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 17 Nov 12 5:46 PM | 60 view(s)
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Hi Alea....


If you look at both Homo Erectus and Neanderthal
man both have large eye sockets and therefore
larger eyes....often quoted as better for night
vision.There's one night monkey whose eyes
are almost bigger than it's skull....

I was just posing the question why would a hunter
have a better chance of survival if it evolved
with a much poorer night vision,and massively physcially weaker body?

I was just wondering if nature could show
other hunter species that had also evolved in
that way....no sources i'm afraid.....but you know anyways i believe in the intervention theory of man.


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By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sat, 17 Nov 12 5:14 PM 		Msg. 11815 of 54959

can you source this kind of stuff for me, doma?

the point is for us to have a chance to get educated. i see what you are saying. i'd like to read up on it.

you have had a different read on evolution to me previously. as if it is an arrow aiming towards perfection rather than a set of random adaptations that nature discovers the competitive advantages of.

maybe our eyes are designed with the opposite sex in mind. bulgy eyes don't get laid.

if nature thinks our eyes are well adapted to the environments we inhabit, then they are probably well adapted. but that doesn't mean we get eagle eyes or night vision goggles.

do you have the sense that homo sapiens is an inferior sort of predator? i think unfortunately we are a bit too good at killing things.

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