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Letter: Letters : Third eye

Published 8 March 1997

From Jean Thorning

Truro, Cornwall

Your article on the evolution of the eye (Âé¶¹´«Ã½, Science, 8
February
) has answered a long-standing puzzle for me over why so many people
have a mole or worty growth between the eyebrows. It must be a left-over
collection of cells from the original neural plate from which they develop. I’ve
always thought of it up until now as the pineal eye.

Issue no. 2072 published 8 March 1997

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