This sounds like an attempt at a Creation versus Evolution debate.I'll start off by saying I don't believe in Evolution, but I still find it to be interesting, so I will try to answer your last question under the assumption Evolution is true.Humans would be considered haplorrhini primates which would have split off from the strepsirrhini primates 63 million years ago. Strepsirrhini primates can have tapetum lucidum (which is the glowing eyes), but are considered more "primitive" primates. The haplorrhini primates (including humans) are mostly diurnal, sleeping at night and awake at day. The night monkey however, is a haplorrhini primate and is nocturnal. This monkey has very large eyes and no color vision. Humans also see in black and white in the dark, losing the usefulness of their color-vision cone cells, but the night monkey has a better spatial resolution in their eyes as it doesn't have any useless cone cells for color vision. So if a human were to require and evolve night vision, I would guess they would get bigger eyes and lose their color vision like the night monkey rather than devolve to acquire the tapetum lucidum of the more primitive strepsirrhines.
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