Our eyesight got 100 Million years older

Image courtesy of Ingo Braasch, fair use doctrine,

Joel Kontinen

It has been the  evolutioist¨'s will to inflate the earliest date for something, In this case, It is the eye that has occurred  before they thought it would happened .

According To MSU News,

 “The network of nerves connecting our eyes to our brains is sophisticated and researchers have now shown that it evolved much earlier than previously thought, thanks to an unexpected source: the gar fish.”.

 “Modern fish, they don’t have this type of eye-brain connection,” said  Ingo Braasch , an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology in the College of Natural Science. at the Michigan State University.

This work, published online in the journal Science on April 8, also means that this type of eye-brain connection predates animals living on land.

So, according to evolution, our eyesight just  got 100 million years older.. in evolution's views, we are fish, 

Source .  

 Davenport, Matt. 2021,  A discovery that 'literally changes the textbook' Michigan State University 8 April,