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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do I understand correctly that our ancestors had left the water before this upgrade dropped for fish?

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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

I've said it for years, as soon as it's commercially available I'm getting photoreceptors realignment surgery.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (11 children)

If vertebrae don't have it, it means they don't need it.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (6 children)
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[–] errer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Is this something we could like, fix?

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Uhhhh gonna say we could theoretically, but I imagine the brain has evolved a bunch of other subfuntions to make this work.

Though I bet you’d adjust super fast if it were only a visual change since our brains are great at adapting

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