Spiders evolved the eyes they need: hunting behaviour drives the evolution of spider eye arrangements

New study featuring the first author, Atal Pande, from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, shows that visually hunting spiders convergently evolved forward-facing eye arrangements, and that their eye positions and orientations evolve as semi-independent modules. In effect, the front of the spider becomes a multi-purpose visual hub, where different eyes specialize while working together on the same target.

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