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Apr 24, 2023 at 1:55 vote accept James Strieter
Apr 21, 2023 at 11:01 comment added Brendan Furneaux Mostly a great answer, but Euglena are no more the "present day relatives" of photosynthetic prokaryotes than we are.
Apr 20, 2023 at 7:04 history edited AliceD CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 20, 2023 at 2:16 comment added Michael great, now I want a 100 trilobyte drive...
Apr 19, 2023 at 0:34 comment added Michael MacAskill @BryanKrause Yes, and there many examples of extant bilaterally symmetric animals with > 2 eyes, eg many spiders have 8. Eyes have evolved independently something like 22 times, so there is vast variety that eludes simple generalizations.
Apr 19, 2023 at 0:13 comment added John @BryanKrause very wrong, some of the first bilaterally symmetric animals with eyes have 5 eyes, 3 eyes, or 2 eyes.
Apr 18, 2023 at 18:54 history edited AliceD CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 18, 2023 at 15:33 comment added Bryan Krause Importantly, cnidarians have more than 2 eyes. Having 2 eyes is more a consequence of bilateral symmetry as all animals with bilateral symmetry have approximately 2 of everything.
Apr 18, 2023 at 14:51 comment added André LFS Bacci These images are great nightmare material.
Apr 18, 2023 at 10:45 history edited AliceD CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 18, 2023 at 9:15 history answered AliceD CC BY-SA 4.0