![]() ![]() ![]() Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future ( 1990) similarly considers various future options for the human form, not excluding Devolution but featuring such Posthuman possibilities as a Cyborg-cum- Genetic Engineering adaptation to function in vacuum and zero- Gravity.ĭixon's expertise was also deployed in a Time-Travel framework, far less taxing in its assumptions, in the Byron Preiss tie, Time Machine #7: Ice Age Explorer ( 1985), an Interactive-Fiction "adventure gamebook". The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution ( 1988) imagines possible evolutionary paths for Dinosaurs had they not become extinct. ![]() (1947- ) UK geologist, palaeontologist and author whose After Man: A Zoology of the Future ( 1981) provides a quasifactual view of a Far-Future Earth in which Homo sapiens, having exhausted the planet and become extinct, gives way (in a fashion reminiscent of the work of Olaf Stapledon) to succeeding forms of life adapted by Evolution to new-found ecological niches: bats, for example, become highly diversified, including flightless land-walking species. ![]()
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