Steven Novella, of the Skeptics Guide, responded to that research in a way that made sense to me: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/scientists-propose-incorrect-o

Steven Novella, of the Skeptics Guide, responded to that research in a way that made sense to me: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/scientists-propose-incorrect-origin-of-backwards-eye http://www.theskepticsguide.org/scientists-propose-incorrect... Basically, just because we found some mechanism which compensates for the arrangement does not mean that we found the cause for the arrangement. The cause is more likely to be an evolutionary local maximum.