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1. Suboptimal Optics: Vision Problems as Scars of Evolutionary History

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Steven Novella

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Optics, medicine.anatomical_structure, genetic structures, business.industry, medicine, Human eye, sense organs, Biology, business, Contingency, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, eye diseases, Education
Abstract

The human eye is an excellent example of suboptimal bottom-up design resulting from the constraints of evolutionary historical contingency. The resulting suboptimal optics manifests in a number of medical ophthalmological disorders.

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