Editing Man After Man

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[[File:Temperate_tundra.jpg|thumb|Why has god punished us so]]

The sequel to the speculative evolution book "After Man", Man After Man is a book by Dougal Dixon, also author of "The New Dinosaurs", a book about what would have happened and what sort of beings would have evolved if dinosaurs never went extinct. Much like its spiritual successor [[All Tomorrows]], Man After Man serves as excellent inspiration for a GM in inspiring [[Abhuman]] or [[Mutant]] breeds for [[Warhammer 40,000]] or other science-fiction RPGs. It takes place over the eons after humanity starts an exodus to the stars due to dying Earth, leaving behind various genetically-engineered Abhuman races, including the survivors, forgetting all about them. The humans and post-human engineers' tenuous civilizations collapse in a polarity shift, leaving Earth to be populated by human-derived animals engineered to fill the ecosystem since many large mammals died out. And yes, they evolve into carnivore and herbivore variants and start predating each other, "evolving" until indescribably retarded and unscientific variants...

...until the humans who left for Alpha Centauri suddenly return [[Wat|five...million...years]] later returning to [[Tyranids|stripmine the planet and harvest the biomass before leaving again]], using the surviving creatures as mindless, tortured cattle and lobotomized slaves and blasting off into space. While forgetting Earth was the human civilization's cradle.

Also much like its successor, the illustrations of Man After Man spawned many Internet Memes.

However, if you have any interests in biology or the bare basics of speculative evolution, Dixon's books are notorious for how...[[fail|grotesquely wrong he gets on simple biology.]] While his After Man book had some interesting ideas, and Man After Man is honestly just Dixon's excuse to delve in his [[Dark Eldar]] [[Heresy|self-indulgence drug-fic]], his most criticized book remained to be New Dinosaurs, for his utter disregard for paleontology, which is ironic since his CV states that he ''is'' a [[wat|paleontologist]], which begs the question on what [[drug]]s he was taking when he came up with these [[Pretend|'dinosaurs']] (Dinosaur in the ''[[fail|loosest]]'' sense of the term). Granted, his books came out in the 1980s, but to say they aged poorly is an ''understatement''. But most of you know him because he was the creature designer for the Future is Wild series of the 2000s. Whilst the series itself is not immune to genuine criticisms that are honest-to-god baffling, the creature design parts by themselves are okay since there were other folks reigning in on Dixon's excesses to make these creatures less fugly beyond belief.

With regards to Man After Man. Well, as we already said, it is just a Cronenberg picture book than a genuine interesting book on speculative human evolution. There is a reason why this page earns the [[WTF]] template. All of his abhumans looks fucking ugly as sin or abominations that should be purged with fire, to speak of nothing about the incredibly senseless evolutionary morphology, to evolve for extremely specific reasons that would be absolutely impossible to achieve for a large mammal, plus quasi-magical bullshit such as psychic connections and over specific single limb mutations a la Lego Genetics. 

For what it's worth, Dixon [https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/of-after-man-the-new-dinosaurs-and-greenworld-an-interview-with-dougal-dixon/ isn't very fond of "that disaster of a project" either]; he had very different plans for sequels where humans voip to the future to fuck up paradise.
[[File:ManAfterManAbhumans.png|thumb|left|All the varieties of post-man]]

==List of Man After Man Abhumans==

Antmen

Aquamorph

Aquatic

Cave-Dweller

Desert-Runner

Fish-Eater

Hitek

Host

Hunter Symbiont

Islander

Memory People

Parasite

Plains-Dweller

Slothmen

Socials

Spiketooth

Symbiont Carrier

Temperate Woodland-Dweller

Travelers of the stars

Tree-Dweller

Tropical Forest-Dweller

Tundra-Dweller

Vacuumorph

Water-Seeker

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