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Richard Dawkins demonstrates the evolution of the eye

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Evolution & geneticsReligion, belief & skepticism

What it is

An excerpt from Richard Dawkins's lecture on Climbing Mount Improbable demonstrating how a complex eye can evolve through incremental steps. It answers the creationist irreducible complexity argument.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as the go-to rebuttal to irreducible complexity, showing that even simple photoreceptors are useful and stages exist in living animals.

  • 2 people recommended it
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  • first 2013, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “the various stages of its evolution can be seen in animals that exist today.”

    Dawkins explains the stages of eye evolution seen in living animals.

    adrusi, 2016-02 · Recommendation · in “Bacterial cells are small 'eyeballs', scientists discover”

  2. “Showing quite clearly how incremental beneficial change leads to the development of complex features.”

    Rebuts irreducible complexity of the eye via incremental change.

    yarg, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “Using paleogenomics to elucidate 10k years of immune system evolution”

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Topics: richard dawkins, evolution, irreducible complexity, eye, natural selection

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