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Eye is Better than Camera at Capturing Contrast & Faint Detail

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Nearly 50 years ago, physiologists described the retina's tricks for improving contrast and sharpening edges, but new experiments by University of California, Berkeley, neurobiologists show how the eye achieves this without sacrificing shadow detail.

The development of the eye was long a sticking point for Darwin and scientists. That has been well resolved, and the argument made that the eye was not well designed--at least from an engineering standpoint. Thus this finding suggests that the eye may be better "designed" than originally thought.
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