Talk:Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

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[edit] Controversy

Can someone cite a source for the Wayne Barlowe \ Dougal Dixon controversy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.210.246.103 (talk • contribs)

Only thing I could find was this Usenet thread, which reports that:
But, lo, near the end there is a single page entitled "Future Man". The caption says (paraphrased) "These sketches are from a book I proposed in 1984, about the future evolution of mankind. Unfortunately, it's a book that will never be created, since the sketches were plagiarized and used by another author."
Couldn't find any independent confirmation of this. Rpresser 15:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to remove the term "controversial book" from the start of the article, because there are no sources on the supposed controversy, and the section on it doesn't seem to justify that name at the start. --Hibernian 22:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed an editor's opinion under "Controversy"

I have removed the following under "Controversy":

"The question of why humans, as one of the most adaptable and evolutionarily successful species on the planet, would turn themselves into such highly specialized subspecies is not addressed in the book."

The obvious reasons for this deletion are twofold:

- Mainly, **this is not a controversy**. This is an editor's opinion, and I hope it will stay gone (as I see someone else tried to remove it awhile back, and it was re-inserted, presumably by the editor who *wrote* it to begin with).

- Secondly (and it is beside the main point that Wikipedia is meant to contain information citable from other sources), evolution takes millions of years. Genetic engineering is within mankind's grasp. Thus, it is believable that man would wish to attempt genetic engineering sooner than waiting 25-30 MILLION years for it.

Sheesh.

"Sheesh", you completely missed the point. Does the quote say anything at all about genetic engineering? It talks about biological specialization, just as described in the book; differentiating the human species into plains-only and forest-only, etc., dwellers, when we can already live in those places without modification. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noclevername (talk • contribs) 04:48, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Man after Man.JPG

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BetacommandBot 08:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HEY!

Does anyone know if there have been german or french versions of this book, and how many exemplaries there were? I searched the whole net for more infos but wikipedia waxs the only source with more than two lines. There could be more illustrations, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.44.73.112 (talk) 19:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy Errors

  • I just read Man After Man, and I noticed a few factual errors:
    • Socials eventually evolved into Hivers, and Socials, according to Dixon, seem to lack a hive mind while Hivers do; the editor mixed up information on the two species.
    • The editor also seem to mixed Symbionts and Hunter Symbionts, and also mixed information.
    • " " " fails to note the relationship between Socials and Seekers was the reason of their "undoing"
    • The introduction is very unencyclopedic and sounds like a review.

In conclusion, this article needs a slight rewrite.Rex Imperator (talk) 15:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Update

  • I re-wrote the article myself, and I made the following changes:
    • Clarified the difference between Hivers and Socials.
    • Re-arranged the Species section so that rather than what appears to be almost completley hazpazard, it is chronological.
    • Moved Homo Menproavordorum to Species article: note while Homo sapiens sapiens, Homo sapiens machinadiumentum, and Homo Sapiens Accesiomembrum all have "Sapiens" in their classification, the Memory People do not.

[edit] Farther Changes

There are a few things that could still be changed:

    • Adding the Desert Runners to the species list.
    • Noting that the Parasites were descendants of the Islanders that discovered Tundra Dwellers.
    • How the Aquatics created a gel-like substance to travel on land to find food.
    • Adding the Tazonomic Name for Hivers
    • Adding a template to the article.

Rex Imperator (talk) 22:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)