He still uses his hind limbs for grasping, but his wings have evolved as legs. The little darling above is called a Night Stalker, a “flightless predator bat,” that comes with this charming description: His beautiful, eery imaginings of what might be have garnered a cult following among science geeks and artistic types alike Dixon studied geology and anthropology, and is as much a scientist as an artist and writer. Since people are starting to take notice of our most recent natural disasters (at least, when they happen to Americans in large urban centers), it seems the perfect time to start talking about all the cool stuff that could happen evolutionarily, should we kill ourselves without killing all other life, or survive in some adapted form, despite the havoc we’ve wreaked on the planet.ĭougal Dixon’s 1981 book, After Man: A Zoology of the Future is a work of speculative fiction that explores how life on earth might change over millions of years in the absence of humans. In the future, everything will be terrifying
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