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There are two questions here; but if we look at the first one (how the eye evolved), the second one will also be answered. The simplest "eye" is simply light sensitivity. For example, some simple sea organisms can only distinguish between light and dark; if it's dark they shrink - some cells on their bodies are light sensitive and it triggers the response. It's obviously basic but better than no sensitivity to light at all. The next stage is a light sensitivity with some indication of motion; again some sea organisms have just that - some extra processing indicating which cells "see" the dark area first. Again, this is better than simply having light or dark sensitivity. One can see from this, that its possible to imagine lots of "next steps" - speed as well as direction, different directions, two eyes to be able to estimate direction, layers of transparent cells to form lenses in front of the light sensitive areas and so on. What's surprising is that examples can be found of most of the "intermediate" stages. A key point is that there's no "final" target that evolution is aiming for; the next stage is reached because the offspring that have more of the next stage present will tend to survive to reproduce and eventually a new species will arise that all have the next stage. Because modern eyes are essentially the result of millions of minor improvements of earlier models we've ended up with some odd results; in our own eye the retina is essentially back to front; the nerves which lead off to the visual context are in front of the light sensitive cones and rods - also if we wanted to design an eye, we wouldn't have a blind spot where the optic nerve joins the eyeball. The "why did the eye evolve" part of the question is that each step provides an advantage over not doing it.

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