Wednesday 27 November 2013

Man After Man: Anthropology of the Future

One of the books of  Dougal Dixon who imagines what life on Earth would be like in the distant future. This illustrator book tells how humanity might evolve from a few centuries to millions of years through genetic engineering. Taking forms of cyborgs, genetically engineered human-animal hybrids to adapt to certain environments until their descendants would eventually evolve less human then their ancestors. Split into numerous human-based species since they can no longer be created from labs after the remaining humans have left earth, evolved into even more stranger looking creatures then their ancestors of new humans and insight of how they behave, adapt and survive; human parasites, sloth men, swimmers . The distant human descendants would eventually look more alien than us.

I found the book interesting of how humans might evolve into which is one of my main interest, how our descendants would look in the future either by genetic engineering or split from the mainstream when living on different planets. But what I found less liking about the book is how almost all the future human species share similar faces from their ancestors, I highly doubt if we become a new species we wouldn't have the same flat faces that I find odd and annoying how they look similar to each other

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