So snakes may be responsible for how we see.

[lithiun]

It's just a theory, but lynne isbell believes snakes are responsible for primates having the vision we do.

Here are links to two articles. Read the second one if your in a hurry.

Why We See So Well | Lynne A. Isbell (http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-fruit-the-tree-and-the-serpent-by-Lynne-Isbell.php)

Eek Week: Snakes On the Brain | Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eek-squad/eek-week-snakes-brain?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=1&con=eek-week-snakes-on-the-brain)

[MizCandice]

Interesting hypothesis!

[formica]

lots of speculation imo, besides which, evolution does not cause animals to adapt, it simply kills off those which cannot survive, there is nothing more to it than that. the whole situation, the enviroment and genetics, are far to complex a situation to say with any certainty, that Snakes caused our eyes to goto the front of our heads

plus ophidiophobia has been shown to be a learned phobia, it is not built into us.


the creationist references towards the end are...well.

[Zoo Nanny]

The testing is skewered. Why didn't they also use other predator animal pictures and other prey animals? I think they would get the same responce with the monkeys to pictures of large cats, raptors and other predator.

[SSSSnakes]

What if, What if, What if. No way to prove anything.

[smy_749]

What if, What if, What if. No way to prove anything.

great post.

[pdomensis]

Might be a good read, but I don't see snakes being such a driving factor in primate evolution. Snakes just aren't/weren't present in great enough numbers to kill enough primates to move the gene pool one way or another.