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Simple Light-sensitive Structure

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In this system, light-sensitive cells are surrounded by pigment cells. The light-sensitive cells perceive light and dark, but nothing else. Darwin perceived an evolutionary pathway from this simple structure to the complex eye of the vertebraate.

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