A priori, I wouldn’t have expected such a high-resolution retina to evolve in the first place, if the lens in front of it wouldn’t have allowed one to take full advantage of it anyway. So I would have expected the resolving power of the lens to roughly match the resolution of the retina. (Well, oversampling can prevent moiré effects, but how likely was that to be an issue in the EEA?)
A priori, I wouldn’t have expected such a high-resolution retina to evolve in the first place, if the lens in front of it wouldn’t have allowed one to take full advantage of it anyway. So I would have expected the resolving power of the lens to roughly match the resolution of the retina. (Well, oversampling can prevent moiré effects, but how likely was that to be an issue in the EEA?)