The shocking origin of human eyes traces back to an ancient “cyclops”

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Humans share a surprisingly strange ancestor with all other vertebrates. New research suggests that far back in evolutionary history, one of our earliest relatives had a single eye, much like a tiny cyclops, positioned on top of its head.

Scientists from Lund University and the University of Sussex report that all vertebrates can be traced back to this ancient, one-eyed organism. According to their findings, the remains of that original "median eye" still exis...

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