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by mytailorisrich 2142 days ago
I'm not sure it's clear how 'advanced' the last common ancestor was. From the hypothesised date, if it had 'eyes' they probably were simple light sensors:

" But our last common ancestor with the octopus was probably some kind of wormlike creature with eye spots that lived as many as 750 million years ago; " [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/10/how-the-freaky-octopus-can-hel...