Botswanavision

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By Elizabeth Preston
Mar 2, 2011 4:04 PMNov 5, 2019 12:22 AM

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Do you ever find yourself squinting into the glare of your computer screen around 4 PM and thinking that your eyes aren't built for this? You're right, of course. The human eye evolved on the African savanna. This is what it's built to see:

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