Why do human beings have white sclera around their eyes? Amongst primates, that dark-in-white is unique to us. Our living ape relatives have dark-in-dark eyes of various kinds. This suggests the white variant was selected for by evolution in a process of natural selection, in which case it must confer an advantage. But what?
It is easy enough to devise a…
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