The investigators say that this evidence is likely applicable to babies born anywhere in the world.
The results of the study were published this month in the clinical eye journal Ophthalmology. The team interpolated data from a sample size of almost 300,000 young adults, making it one of the largest epidemiological surveys carried out in the world on any subject.
...(co-author Prof. Michael Belkin of Tel Aviv University’s Goldschleger Eye Research Institute)..doesn’t identify any evolutionary benefit for extreme myopia in summer babies. “People with longer eyes who lived in the period prior to the invention of eyeglasses were severely disadvantaged and restricted to a few professions or doomed to death.”
~(Evolutionary) Advantage Mine!
Posted by Stubbornson at August 25, 2007 01:08 PM