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![]() ![]() If I remember right (the book is back at the library), the night stalker evolved from the bat, outgrew eyes, grew big fangs and claws, and turned its wings into ears. The book skips around to various ecosystems–jungle, desert, plains–and shows artist renderings of what the animals there have adapted into, with captions explaining why.įor instance, rabbits have grown to fill in the niche deer left in their extinction and rats have grown to fill the wolf niche.Īnd here’s a cuddly hell-spawn called a night stalker: Those that survived kept evolving, and now we’re visiting them 50 million years after the Age of Man. ![]() We blew it and died and took a lot of animals with us.īut not all the animals. The end wasn’t dramatic or sudden or particularly sad, it was just the culmination of humanity’s long-brewing bad habits. A couple of the more exciting book stumbles I’ve enjoyed recently are Geologist Dougal Dixon’s “zoology of the future,” After Man (1981), and its “anthropology of the future” sequel, Man After Man (1990).Īfter Man is a credible paleontology/speculative fiction bonanza that runs on the sober premise that our era is over. ![]()
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