Has the Primate Visual System Been Preserved Through Millions of Years?

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By Ken Ham

In a new study, scientists compared the visual system of a very tiny lemur from Madagascar, the mouse lemur, with that of other primates and found that “the size of these visual processing units is identical in all primates, independent of their body size” and that “the way the units are arranged across the brain was totally indistinguishable, following the same rules with mathematical precision . . . [and] the number of nerve cells per visual unit was almost identical.” Now why is this significant?

Well, this is considered important in the evolutionary view because mouse lemurs supposedly share “many …read more

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