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IN the article, “Light and Sight,” which appeared in NATURE of Jan. 21, Sir John Parsons accepts as evidence “that the human eye has become specially adapted to sunlight,” “the fact that the brightest part of the spectrum, as seen by the light-adapted eye, coincides more or less accurately with the summit of the curve of radiant energy.” The implication that the eye has developed in the direction of maximum efficiency as a converter of energy justifies careful examination of the suggestion.
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SMITH, T. Light and Sight. Nature 121, 242–243 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121242b0
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