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Lyall Watson (born April 12, 1939) is a botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature . Lyall Watson tries to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with the first published use of the term Hundredth Monkey in his 1979 book, Lifetide. It is a hypothesis that aroused both interest and ire in the scientific community and continues to be a topic of discussion over a quarter century later. He has served as director of the Johannesburg, South Africa zoo, an expedition leader to various locales, a writer and producer for the BBC, and Seychelles commissioner for the International Whaling Commission. In the late 1980s he presented Channel 4's coverage of sumo tournaments. Watson lives and writes in Ireland.
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