Man after Man review

I am a fan of Dougal Dixon's speculative works, but 'Man after Man' is an entry that could not match the informative and visual quality of his original 'After Man' work.

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Education

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• Man
• after
• human
• evolution
• Dougal
• Dixon
• After
• zoology
• anthropology

[nineteenthly]

I've read both and i bought After Man when it was published. There are flaws in After Man as well, for instance the parashrew is ridiculous. However, i agree After Man is far better and it also has the fact that it's written as if by a Victorian explorer or naturalist.

[QUANTUMJOKER]

@nineteenthly

You're right. The Parashrew is pretty ludicrous.

[JunkyardBreadfruit]

I never read either of these, but I did read Future Evolution, which tries to predict future evolution when mankind is present. Interesting and not interesting at the same time.

[QUANTUMJOKER]

Is that the Peter Ward publication? If so, I've been trying to find it for a long time, as I have a passion for such books.

[KingZoritaGorington1]

the creatures that dredge up memories from past generations in only 50,000 years is the memory people, boat people, and travellers and their scientific names are Homo Mensproavodorum.

[KingZoritaGorington1]

May I have a word with sir? :) You make quite a great video about the two books After Man and Man After Man. The first time I studied Man After Man it is really wierd but gave me an idea for King Zorita Gorington to create genetically engineered versions of themselves to fill the vacant niches of their colonized planets after terraforming them and you can see him on spore.com at sporepedia.

[pumaconcolor1978]

Hojala queden animales para evolucionar

[nuclearzeon]

@QUANTUMJOKER I read After Man on this one website, and probably the thing I found most far-fetched was those flightless auks that LAY THEIR EGGS OUT IN THE OPEN WATER! Uh, Doug, you should know that bird eggs can't survive out in the open water.

Also, the Reedstilt on the cover. It never said what the hell that thing evolved from, just that it's a mammal.

[JackRussellTerrier2]

With reference to the Dougal Dixon book "MAN -after- MAN," Plenty of detail was given into the daily lives of future humans. And as far as 4:25 was concerned, mating rituals did play a part. For example, read "HUEH CHUUM AND HIS LOVE" on pages 35 & 36.

[n987]

I think that man after man mean to be more science fiction, that actual science.

[nineteenthly]

@QUANTUMJOKER There are more subtle things too. For instance, carnivores can't abduct their forelimbs because they have no (or very small?) clavicles, so the Striger is impossible, supposedly.

What do you think of 'The Future Is Wild'? I think it's better than 'Man After Man' but not so good as 'After Man'.

[TimmyGal]

No one is perfect. I love After Man. It was my inspiration for my Metazoica site. I took his ideas and made them my own, and added more to the original cast of characters. I love speculative evolution!