Turning an Eye Blind

[stoutfellow]

Courtesy of threeringedmoon, an article by PZ Myers on How the Cavefish Lost Its Eyes. (For the record, I always assumed explanation #1 was the correct one.)

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[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

I found most fascinating in the article that a transplantation of a lens from a sighted cavefish gave a fully functioning eye to an eyeless non-sighted cavefish embryo.