Dougal Dixon
| Dougal Dixon | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 9, 1947 Dumfries, Scotland |
| Residence | Wareham, Dorset, England |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom? |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
| Known for | After Man books, founder of speculative evolution genre |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Dixon (m. 1971) |
| Children |
Gavin (b. 1975) Lindsay (b. 1980) |
| Awards |
Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism (1993) Helen Roney Sattler Award (1993) The Children's Book Council (1994) Outstanding Trade Science Book Award (1996) Times Educational Supplement Primary Schoolbook Award (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Speculative evolution, palaeontology |
Dougal Dixon (born Dumfries, May 9, 1947[1]) is a Scottish palaeontologist, 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 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 prehistóricos (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)
- The Future is Wild
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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