The discovery of a somatosensory fovea in the star-nosed mole suggests that this organizational scheme is a general evolutionary solution to constructing a high-resolution sensory system.

• 从星鼻鼹的体感觉具有中央窝的发现可推测，生物在建构高解析度的感觉系统时，这种结构模式是常见的演化解决方案。