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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Humans and squids evolved the same eyes using the same genes:

Eyes and wings are among the most stunning innovations evolution has created. Remarkably these features have evolved multiple times in different lineages of animals. For instance, the avian ancestors of birds and the mammalian ancestors of bats both evolved wings independently, in an example of convergent evolution. The same happened for the eyes of squid and humans. Exactly how such convergent evolution arises is not always clear. In a new study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, researchers have found that, despite belonging to completely different lineages, humans and squid evolved through tweaks to the same gene.
http://theconversation.com/humans-and-squid-evolve d-same-eyes-using-same-genes-26265 [theconversation.com]

http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140305/srep04256/f ull/srep04256.html?WT.ec_id=SREP-20140311 [nature.com]

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