Human Vision Goes Back 600 Million Years

A group of American researchers from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has recently made huge progress in understanding how vision in higher animals, including humans, developed. The experts looked at a member of an ancient group of sea creatures, called the hydra, in order... [ read more >> ]

Hydra and vertebrates are related in terms of the genes they use for vision

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Hydra and vertebrates are related in terms of the genes they use for vision