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DaveC
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DaveC asked in HealthGeneral Health Care · 2 decades ago

Has humanity's collective eyesight gotten worse in modern times?

It seems that a large percentage of the population wears glasses/corrective lenses. Poor eyesight must have been a serious disadvantage to survival in the past (even a couple hundred years ago for the lower classes). So has our collective eyesight gotten worse, or were our ancestors with poor eyesight either barely scraping by or getting weeded out?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    well i tink its us... reason being to the introduction of technology. With 'new' medias like computers, televisions... so yeh... generally our eyesight is getting worst as the generations progress... im wearing glasses myself.. :D

  • 2 decades ago

    The first answer sounds like a good one!

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