Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

MAN after MAN

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, once the peak of human evolution and now extinct.

DOUGAL DIXON

MANa terMAN AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE FUTURE FOREWORD BY BRIAN ALDISS

Illustrations by Philip Hood

St. Martin's Press. New York

Two creatures - a single ancestor. Each is a product of 5 million years of genetic alteration and evolutionary development. Each has gone through changes - artificial and naturalimposed from outside and from within - until neither resembles in the least the common ancestral creature. The name of the ancestral creature was Homo sapiens. It was ourselves.

Copyright © 1990 by Dougal Dixon Illustrations copyright © 1990 by Philip Hood , All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Design by Ben Cracknell ISBN 0-312--03560-8 First edition First printing Printed and bound in Italy

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