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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:38 AM
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The Dougal Dixon appreciation thread
I love this guy's "future biology" books. I just ran across "The Future is Wild" in the bookstore. Is there anything cooler than a land-dwelling squid, or a ground-nesting octopus?

I also noticed that Vernor Vinge cribbed his idea for social spiders in "Across Realtime".
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 10:49 AM
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1. I really enjoyed his stuff
although I thought the Future Is Wild stuff was a watered down version of his first book. After Man was fascinating, as was the New Dinosaurs.

Fantastic works of imagination, and pretty believable. Probably anathema to any anti-evolutionists, though.
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:53 PM
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2. anathema for sure, especially "After Man"
not only are we descended from apes, we're the ancestors of herd beasts :-)
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