Desrtopa comments on Evolutionary psychology: evolving three eyed monsters - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 17 March 2012 02:26:40AM 2 points [-]

Flies have compound eyes which allow nearly omnidirectional vision. Evolving a new eye when you've already got hair in the way is probably hard, since it would get in the way of a simple light sensitive patch as a starting point, and even if a specimen did mutate one it would probably offer a very weak advantage compared in a species that already has fully developed binocular vision and the ability to turn its head.

Some species have developed additional eyes evolving independently from their original sets though