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March 2004

Animal Planet eyes

A series of screengrabs I made of a David Attenborough documentary shown on Animal Planet a while ago:













Martijn wrote on 2004/03/17:
Very cool... too bad most of the people here don't understand Dutch :/


P01 wrote on 2004/03/17:
The second pic is awesome. That animal ( a lizard ? ) have some razor blade eyes ~__~


Calm_Pear wrote on 2004/03/17:
A translation:
The critics could not believe that such a complex mechanism could evolve through a natural process. Darwin thought it could; “If the transitions from simple to complex eyes could prove that every step is useful then the difficulty in believing in natural selection is not contrary to my theory.”


milov wrote on 2004/03/17:
Nice, although I'd translate that last bit as:
"If the existence of transitions from simple to complex eyes could be proven, and those transitions are useful, then the difficulty in believing in natural selection is not contrary to my theory."


milov wrote on 2004/03/17:
P01: I think the second one is a gecko:
http://images.google.com/images?q=gecko+eyes


Calm_Pear wrote on 2004/03/17:
Yep, thats better Milo. Makes you wonder what the English was really like...


P01 wrote on 2004/03/17:
Milo: yep, it's really similar to the eyes of a gecko.

The 5th looks like the animal have some contact lens :) with what seems to be the retina misaligned with the pupil.