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Nathan H. Lents
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Nathan H. Lents writes The Human Evolution Blog, a personal blog at thehumanevolutionblog.com about science and health. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Poor Design of the Human Eye”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Nathan H. Lents' blog covers human evolution, including the octopus eye and the inverted human retina, and the poor design of the human eye. The comments cite these posts without judging them.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Poor Design of the Human Eye3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-21
What Hacker News says?
> the product of parallel evolution. Famously, their eyes are almost identical to ours, and are purely the product of parallel evolution. One difference, though is that at some point during our evolution there was a glitch, or at least it took a less-than-optimal turn, that resulted in our retina being 'inverted', i.e. light must traverse the nerves and some tissue before reaching the light receptors, while theirs i…
Comment linking /2015/01/12/the-poor-design-of-the-human-eye/
on “What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017)”Submitted Prairie Dogs Have There Own Domain Specific Language (DSL) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYour comment about the human eye made me curious about its design flaws. While I could not find anything about what Feynman said, this might be of interest to some. https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2015/01/12/the-poor-design...
Comment linking /2015/01/12/the-poor-design-of-the-human-eye/
on “A Meta Lesson”Submitted The Poor Design of the Human Eye as a story · 1 points
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