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Humans have little or no sensitivity to polarized light, and no sensitivity at all to ultraviolet...

Humans have little or no sensitivity to polarized light, and no sensitivity at all to ultraviolet light while many invertebrates such as insects do. In what way do you think this would be useful to an organism?

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