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Why has nature given us two eyes instead of one ?

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There are several advantages of our having two eyes instead of one.
It gives a wider field view because human being has a horizontal field view of about 150° with one eye and of about 180° with two eyes.
(ii) The ability to detect, faint objects is enhanced with two detectors instead of one.
(iii) with one eye, the world looks flat, i.e.,. She two dimensional-only. With two eyes, the view is three dimensional.
As our two eyes are separated by a few centimeters each eye observes a slightly different image. Our brain combines the o two views into one and we get to know how close or far away the things observed are.
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