Andrew Parker: Zoologist or Crackpot?

[Mentat]

Andrew Parker is a zoologist at Oxford. Apparently, he has put out a book that promotes that idea that the evolution of vision played a key role in the evolution that came afterward. I don't know, since I've never read the book, but only a summary, but it appears that he thinks that seeing danger has something to do with evolving to protect yourself from it...in short, I think he's a total crackpot.

Does anyone know something about his actual theory?

Any corrections, additions, or comments, are appreciated .

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Simon Conway Morris, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, published a critical review of Parker's book In the Blink of an Eye in the journal American Scientist.

American Scientist. Vol. 91, No. 4 (JULY-AUGUST 2003), pp. 365-367 (3 pages)

Available online at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27858252 (requires access to jstor)