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Today you learn about how some plants may have a sense of sight.

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Raised hands, let's satisfy some curiosity. Recent scientific research has shown that plants are way more complex than we give them credit for.

Plants communicate through the air and through their root structures and even show a plant version of cognition.

And evidence is suggesting that plants may have the gift of sight.

Before we share this mind-bending evidence, we should back up.

This isn't really anything new. Way back in 1907, Francis Darwin, the son of the

one and only Charles Darwin, argued the same thing. He theorized that plant leaves have organs

made up of lens-like cells and light-sensitive cells,

organs now called ocelli. You can see ocelli, sometimes called simple eyes,

in some arthropods and in jellyfish and sea stars.

Darwin's theory was all but forgotten until recently when a new wave of something called

plant neurobiology started gaining steam.

In a November 2016 issue of trends in plants science,

scientists laid out the case for plants having something akin to an eye.

Exhibit A, earlier in 2016, researchers discovered that an Eye. they said probably the world's smallest and oldest example of a camera eye.

It's reasonable to assume that other organisms like plants probably do too.

Exhibit B, according to Scientific American, is that some plants make proteins involved in the development

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