Assertion: lamprey's eye | /r/HasProperty | degenerate
Facets:
value: , not primitively
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The researchers write, “Myxinikela is a hagfish, and the recognition of pigmented eyes in this taxon indicates that the eyes of extant hagfish are degenerate, not primitively simple.”15
text: Our data indicate that the eyes of extant hagfishes are degenerate and are not an appropriate model for the evolutionary assembly of the vertebrate eye.”16