Re: The new dinosaurs

[Bill Adlam <bill.adlam@st-peters.oxford.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 20 May 1995 Flyinggoat@aol.com wrote:

>   He also has 2 other books on 'speculative evolution', AFTER MAN, about what
> happens to modern animals if man goes extinct some time soon, and another one
> I forget the title of just now.  Both are nice in theory, but sometimes go
> funny in execution of the illustrations.

The first one is I think called "Life After Man", and is pretty good (I 
especially liked the gigantelopes) but is too mammal-biased for my tastes.  
The second is "Man After Man", and consists of a possible evolutionary future 
for the human species (although it ends up more as an order or even a class
by the time he has finished with it).  I didn't like this so much: after the 
first few types it became very hard to believe.

I haven't seen "The New Dinosaurs".  I hope it doesn't have that version of
an intelligent Troodon descendant with flat feet, no tail and all those other
hominid-mimicking characters.
                                                                Bill Adlam