The illustrations have a bit of a folksy quality, seem anatomically awkward and all with peculiarly flat noses and the Hiver, or Alvearanthropus desertus - a future human predicted to evolve some two million years hence - for some reason resembles an ageing Jewish comedian of the 1950s - although whether that's necessarily a bad thing would certainly be subject to debate. Wells' The Time Machine, Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and doubtless many others and in any case Dixon's book worked well enough for me when I first read it a couple of decades ago. Man After Man is apparently Dougal Dixon expanding on the success of After Man, a previous and similarly themed effort imagining the next few million years worth of animal evolution in the event of our disappearance and this theme - imagining the next few million years of human evolution - if supposedly tainted with certain visuals pinched wholesale from artist Wayne Douglas Barlow, was hardly an original idea in the first place what with H.G. Man After Man - An Anthropology of the Future (1990)
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