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Evolution of sight
Almost all animal life can see (96% of species have an eye), and at a molecular level, every eye in the world works in the same way. At the heart of all vision is a light sensitive pigment called rhodopsin.
Professor Brian Cox shows the stages of the evolution of the eye, from a primitive light sensitive spot, to a complex mammalian eye.
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