Eyes give insight into evolutionary arms race
..."If the development of complex life is viewed as 24 hours, everything of interest happened in the first hour," he says. "Our fossils are from that first hour. Within the first blink of evolution, animals had evolved eyes that are very similar to what modern animals have today."
....Although the find is important because it is the first of its kind to be found in such a preserved state, Lee says it is doubly significant because the eyes are "so unexpectedly advanced".
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