Researchers found that vertebrate eyes - including humans’ - began as brain tissue from a single ancestral light-sensing organ.

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The biggest challenge faced by successive State governments in Kerala has been keeping expenditure down without undermining its pro-social sector fiscal policies.

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The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.