Dougal Dixon
Dougal Dixon (born Dumfries, May 9, 1947[1]) is a Scottish paleontologist, geologist and author.
Biography
Dixon studied geology and palaeontology at the University of St. Andrews and is best known for his illustrated works of speculative fiction, which largely concern "zoologies of the future": his own visions of how human beings and animals might evolve in millions of years' time. He is the younger brother of Douglas Dixon.
He is considered the founder of the genre of speculative evolution.[2]
Books
Texts:
- After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981)
- Visions of Man Evolved (1982)
- The Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia (1988)
- The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution (1988)
- The Children's Giant Book of Dinosaurs (approx. 1990)
- Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (1990)
- The Future Is Wild (2003) - with John Adams
- La enciclopedia ilustrada de los dinosaurios y otros animales prehistoricos (2005)
- If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today
- World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures (2008)
Fiction:
- Ice Age Explorer (Time Machine, No. 7) (1985)
Television appearances
- Natural History of an Alien (aka Anatomy of an Alien) - Discovery Channel/BBC (1998)
References
- ^ web page・Biography
- ^ Naish, Darren. "Of After Man, The New Dinosaurs and Greenworld: an interview with Dougal Dixon". Retrieved 2015-06-16.
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