Starfish photography

The complexity of the vertebrate eye disturbed Darwin, but he supposed it might have originated millions of years ago through a series of small steps that started with a rudimentary light-sensitive spot. Today, evolutionary theory claims that all eyes found in the animal world somehow evolved independently and can supposedly “be traced from a simple ancestral patch of photoreceptor cells.”1 Those same authors stated, “There appears to have been a single evolutionary origin of light-sens

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Photo about Starfish on a lonely beach. Summer holiday concept. Image of ocean, landscape, isolated - 18878722

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Photo about Starfish (Asterias rubens) isolated on white background. Image of white, asterias, echinoderm - 17163951

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Starfish on the beach

Echinoderms (starfish, brittle star, sea urchin, feather star, sea cucumber) - marine biology (characteristics, ecology and range, behavior), underwater photography, links, books