“After Man” Explained | Speculative Zoology
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Imagine a version of Earth fifty million years in the future - where humanity has vanished, and extraordinary new creatures have evolved. Welcome to Dougal Dixon’s “After Man.”
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‘After Man’ is a retro-art filled speculative zoology book written by Dougal Dixon. The book is part of a trilogy alongside ‘Man After Man’ and ‘The New Dinosaurs’ - I have a video on The new Dinosaurs in the archive. After Man also influenced other series like the Future is Wild, and C. M. Kosemen's infamous ‘All Tomorrows.’
‘After Man’s’ impact no surprise, as the post-human Earth Dixon brings to life within the pages feels so familiar, and yet so alien. And the biology of the futuristic animals he showcases are so strange, it’s worth taking a closer look. So, for this entry into the archive, we’re going to break down the animal ecosystems of the far future, bearing in mind that some of the science is outdated, and it’s impossible to know exactly what such a world would look like. Think of this book and this video as just an interesting guess.
So, let’s leap forwards fifty million years, and discover what types of fantastical species might now reign over the planet.
0:00 A New World
1:21 Temperate Forests & Grasslands
3:23 Coniferous Forests
4:19 Tundra and the Polar Regions
5:52 Deserts
7:09 Tropical Grasslands
8:29 Tropical Forests
9:28 Islands
10:35 Outro
All book credit goes to the brilliant Dougal Dixon, please support his amazing work!
Website here: www.dougal-dixon.co.uk/
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Queen Elizabeth is so lucky to witness these beautiful animals in the future
You wont be saying that when she dies via crossbow shooting :)
that is an amazing observation of her majesties "immortality + wrinkles personal ointment". thank you!
You know there are more older people that her.
@@sauviel6296 ?
yeah
People: "What will animals look like in the future?"
Dixon: "H O R N S"
What's particularly funny is the obsession with downward-bent horns.
Mammals had all kinds of funky horns across their evolutionary history, but downward horns are very rare.
and Rodents
@@Ezullof Hi.
Ever thought 'If i could only help UA-cam become
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?
You could say he thinks all the animals are horny
@@Faraway994 good one
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Dougal is very popular in Japan. He even had a book that was ONLY published in Japan.
Lmao true
@@dubuyajay9964 what's the name of the book?
@@imAdolff Green World
Dixon: Here we have the Aeropanda.
Me: Cool, a Panda with wings?
Dixon: Despite its name, it resembles more like a squid with rocket thrusters.
Me: Odd..., still a cool evolution of the squid though.
Dixon: Despite its look, its ancestor was actually the Tibetan Fox.
HA
What minute
@@CanaldoCaDiversoes its a joke
I have the book! There are some animals he skipped but they are just like that!
Also Dixon: Swimming monkey. A monkey that swims.
So in 2021 we have entered the Speculative Zoology Renaissance, I don’t mind this one bit
ikr
Yeah, I found it interesting before the All Tomorrows rage. I'm glad this type of half-fiction is becoming popular.
@@historynerd556 me 2
Also in tandem with the Dune hype
People want to move on from 2020 so bad we’re already imagining a world where we’ve all died
"bats evolving to mimic flowers is absurd."
The tawny frogmouth mimics flowers sometimes. It's a bird with a bright yellow mouth that attracts bugs.
Yeah it’s probably one of most accurate in this book
The praying mantis does this too
#OOF
There are also mantis
Except mammals and amphibians are not really that related. Technically most of these are "possible" anatomically speaking but they wouldn't ever occur realistically speaking.
It would be very fun if at the end he wrote something like “this is the horseshoe crab, it remains unchanged”
Genius
Yessss
Tbh a lot of animals probably won't change
In the book, Dixon mentions that while there are changes in the marine environment, they would only be of interest to the specialist. Similar idea. I loved looking at the diagrams of which orders still survived in the posthomic.
The Nightstalker, the Vortex, and the Rabbuck were always my personal favorites from After Man. I seriously question the concept of Swimming Anteater though. :D
maybe ants evolved into water insects so the anteater had to evolve with it
Quick correction to this video: the chicken isn't actually the closet living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex -- the study I was citing is outdated. Chickens are related to therapods, but aren't uniquely close to the T-Rex when compared to other bird species.
Ok
Yeah, because if the Chicken was closely related to the T rex, they all would be.
So what's the current closest living relative of T-Rex? (An specific species, not "BirDs" (everyone knows that)
@@alvaronavarro4895 I don't know they exact species it descended, but I know the Bird they descended from. Archaeopteryx, in the late Juassic, was either one of the first Birds, or the first bird to ever exist, and is the ancestor to all living and non living birds.
@@stevenandersen6989 I know that already Bro, but thanks for the knowledge anyway :D!
I feel like we can’t come even close to understanding what the future animals would look like without first understanding the climate and ecosystem
The first dozen of pages of the book covers that.
In fact, currently it's much easier to predict future climates, and how future ecosystems will work as a whole, than to predict what animals specifically will fill each niche.
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What’s interesting to me is what people of the future will think about these Future Zoology documents, and how they could line up the current events from when they were written to gain an idea of the authors’ perspectives of the future
I've had this book since the early 80's, it's waaaaay out of date.
I'd love to see a new edition that encompasses more up to date info. 🙂
Lol how can something speculating 5 billions years be out or date
@@KristinkaAranova the way it speculates on how animals would evolve would be ood
You mean more up to date pseudoscience illustrations.
No, the new evidence that oxygen continues to decline which will perpetuate species continuing to reduce in size. Not one single example of any species gaining in size in the last 200 years. 2 years ago we didn't understand how much oxygen is reducing over time on earth.
@@youdonotcareyeah tbh we would speculate 99,9 % now as much as 40 years ago
Love how people are getting into speculative zoology so interesting!!
It is really interesting
It is indeed really interesting
I found it to be extremely interesting 2 years ago. I'm glad many people share the same passion as me now.
Love to see that everybody else has these kind of videos in their reccomended
People have been into it since the birth of man, just look at hydras, goblins or wendigos.
"rabbits have evolved to fill the same niche that deer once did..."
- Wait, what happened to all the deer?
The same thing that happened to all animals too big to survive mass extinctions.
@Mother Rab I don’t like where this is going
Presumably, they died out in a mass extinction and left their niche open for a smaller creature that then became large - just like what happened with the original mammals.
@@mushrooms5601 me neither
@Mother Rab to fight to the death in a battle royale with nothing but their own skills and claws/horns/jaws/venom
Will admit, had me in the first half, but after the animal with the horns to push snow out of the way, I started critiquing more of these speculations and realized a lot of them are baseless speculation. Not to say no one can do any speculating on what the future holds, but for educational purposes, not enough research went into these changes.
If an animal needed horns to push snow out of the way, why don't deer do that? A lot of the way animals evolved is about energy conversation. Having to constantly shovel snow out of the way is a lot of work and its extremely inefficient. Heavier animals like bears hibernate, and animals that hunt in the winter, like the lynx, have larger feet to act like snowshoes to keep them from sinking in.
There's more I want to touch on but for the sake of not getting lengthy, This is my big example of why a lot of these are unrealistic. The nature of speculation is still fun though.
Reindeer, the only deer in which both sexes have horns, do just that: they use their horns to scrape and shovel away snow to get to the plants underneath.
I was looking for a comment like this
I think only a few of these speculations are more realistic but not everything. like the one for the monkeys and the bats i think those are far more unrealistic same for the penguins and rabbits.
Squirrel with barb tail would need to keep it high enough not to drag on the ground, or else the barbs will be damaged, lost, wasted, etc. The tail can't curl in on itself like usual, or the squirrel might stab itself. So already we need a heavier muscle system to support the tail along the back and keep it off the ground. Which means the squirrel has less agility and requires more to eat. This is the sort of trend that just keeps happening. It's not very realistic just like you said, but it is fun! :>
I agree. It seems more imaginative than speculative which is still interesting but has it's own place
"Hopefully wolf sized rats aren't something we have to deal with"
Capybara : Am I a joke to you?
Thanks for liking my video random guy
Let’s just hope the Qu doesn’t screw our anatomy in the next 10 million years
“those goddamn rats keep shitting into our creation’s mouths”
Honestly, creationism is so boring. Like, it's wrong, but it's also so boring. Evolution is wild. It's insane. I love it
Man After Man: screw the Qu i have the shibaladabaladigabdaa
Excellent reference
The qu is fictional
"Im glad that wolf-sized rats aren't something we have to deal with in our time"
Capybaras: Am I a joke to you
"No, but you're more accurately described as a guinea pig the size of a regular pig."
True... but I decided the stretch was worth it for the joke.
It does
Except that capybaras don't eat long pork and along with their fluffier cousins they are among the friendliest critters in South America. 🥩
Wtf capybaras are like the most chill animal ever
A channel that focuses on speculative biology as well as realistic fantastical storytelling and world building is the perfect content for me and some of the rarest, most well done on the internet
I love to compare these speculative evolutionary possibilities to those of Renaissance artists drawing animals they'd only ever hear of but had never actually seen.
You mean exactly like they did with the past…😅
This channel is criminally underrated.
No
@@_SUPERN0VA_ it is
@@_SUPERN0VA_ it deserves at least 3M subs
The algorithm gods were smiling today, because they have another sub from me!
I mean, this vidéo is just about saying out loud the content of a book. It doesn't add anything to it. Still interesting, but come on.
Me and the boys evolving into new species 50 million years after man:
you mean man after man
@@blazingtrs6348 then he would say:
Me and the boys evolving into species 50 million years man after man
Swimming monke
@@unknownusers0000 mermonke
@@LuLu.Leigh420 aquamonke
I’m working on my own speculative biology project, one that involves that starts with a post nuclear war Earth, with the humans leaving the Earth, with all the wildlife and many of the flora in arks, leaving the pests and majority of the pets and livestock to die.
But, nature finds a way, and Earth gets restored with the new species filling as many niches as possible
Uhoh we both have the same idea 😅
@@VincentEdelstein hey!
@@VincentEdelstein it is a pretty good idea
When will it be released? Is there a video about it?
That's literally what in my mind.
I wonder what the animals would look like.
I’ll never forget the Bat that walks on the front legs. We read that book when I was in first grade back in 1993. A paleontologist came to our class and showed us fossils. We also went to a tar pit.
Guess we now know what evolution did within 6 years
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Hopefully the All Tomorrow’s and Man after Man boom in popularity going on right now will give this a boost, great video it’s crazy it doesn’t have more views!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
they both did lol
All tomorrow >man after man
I've seen lots of all tomorrow's videos on UA-cam
@@bobydigital2450 i mean yeah, both of those books are good but all tomorrows is better by a large margin.
However i think after man (the book in the video) is definitely better than those two for being an actual, way more realistic, speculative zoology book, going by it's purpose of investigating evolution and biology and not trying to tell some science fiction history.
I read this book growing up and was astounded by how inventive some of these species are. My favourite was the Meaching; a descendant of the lemming, which build colonies under the snow using dead vegetation like half-ant/half-beavers. Another is the Pfrit, a small rodent with an anteater-shaped mouth that uses fine hairs on its feet and tail to skate on top of the water, eating the insects below the surface.
Glad to see that this book hasn't been forgotten!
I am quite glad I wasn't the only one to find After Man truly fascinating!
One of my favorites was the Raboon. I found it impossibly intriguing that a primate could evolve a more theropod-esk build theoretically, but then again, speculative evolution is never necessarily wrong.
This was one of my favorite books growing up! So glad you made a video on this
Animals in 50 million years:
"Well, I guess its time to be a carnivore"
We're already omnivores dude
Awesome, looks like All Tomorrows is opening up doors to other types of spec. I'm glad my favourite genre is getting more attention.
You don't know much about your "favorite genre" it seems
Poser moment
@@HuskySansVergogne did you think about people founding about a genre turning it in their favorite even not knowing much about it? Yeah... It happens a lot, you don't have to know everything about it to be you favorite, because you could just found it out
me too ☺️
@@HuskySansVergogne im sure what they meant is that the popularity of All Tomorrows sheds light on previous, current and furure alliterations of the genre, not that AT came first..
Imagine Ark but with these creatures.
It will be strange
genesis part 3?
God, it would be a spectacle.
Imagine Ark but single player focused and good.
@@PlanetShlorpian If it is good or not is a matter of perspective. Hard? That is without question.
Though I do feel like we will be getting a more individualistic-styled experience with Ark ||.
so basically almost everything is a descendant of a rodent and penguins are now whales and dolphins
10:13 i now immediately love this thing to cause it's so goofy looking
I really want more vids like this, keep up the great content!
I remember reading his books back in primary school. Man those were the days
I got a original copy in my bookshelf
There's nothing like 80s-90s kids science books. Miss those Scholastic book catelogs.
To be honest the only one i see ACTUALLY being evolved in the future are the penguins into fully aquatic animals.
And seals and comparable aquatic carnivores to take on more of an Orca/Dolphin/Whale role since those are declining
Because we’re screwing with the planet’s ecosystems so much it’s tough to imagine how it’ll effect everything, besides killing it.
How would they hatch their eggs if they were fully aquatic and couldn't go on land?
@@osmanthewoodsman5040 to answer that question just look at sharks :) even ichtyosaurs and plesiosaurs were revealed to hatch live young as the fossil record reveals
@@pbroski92 seems to be extremely difficult for animals with heavily calcified eggshells to develop viviparity. Livebearing reptiles belong to groups with parchment-type eggshells. Turtles, crocs and birds (all of which have calcified eggshells) seem to be permanently stuck with egg laying.
watching this video feels like looking at a picture book as a little child while getting read the texts by a grownup, so wholesome^^
I'm loving this speculative zoology , makes you think and wonder about what life could be like in millions of years time on earth
So basically everything in the future gets bigger, oh and I couldn’t forget R A T S lots of them
Human killed to extinction most non rat animals
Funny how evolution renders animal smaller for millions generations untill they decide to draw it bigger
@@shafiqjames6767 Well, the Rabbuck is a real animal today, and it lives exactly there. You can pet a dolichotis patagonum on many zoo.
Not really. The modern megafauna disappeared, so smaller animals fill the niches left empty. And yes it means getting bigger. But it doesn't mean that there are no small animal left.
It's a very old story. Everytime there's a big extinction event, the bigger animals disappear and the smaller ones evolve to fill the ecosystems.
@@shafiqjames6767 It doesn't though. Humans are directly responsible for the disappearance of megafauna around the globe. We are an extinction event. Evolution is a force we are fighting against.
This book *shows canine looking animal*
“This is a descendant of the snake”
My favorite book as a kid. Really sparked my imagination. So cool to see it's coming back up!
I've seen most of these animals in a book collection my mother had. There were only a few pages in one book, so it was far from being complete, but it was my favorite one. It was something like 20-25 years ago! I'm so glad to see these creatures again!!
I really do love the designs of these animals. There so imaginative but yet realistic.
@Chazzerine well that's an exception to the norm. Of all things that one really doesn't make sense. Why would you flip your legs around like that idk
@@gandsproductions5105 It makes sense if you look at how present bats work. The legs are used for grabbing, and the arms are used for locomotion. The Nightstalker works the exact same way but for the ground, the arms now running instead of flapping. Not really the best evolution, but makes sense as the quickest path from modern bats.
@@capootiscrepitoos well weren't the flooers also bats? And they had normal arms and legs.
@@gandsproductions5105 They just sit still all day waiting for food, so their legs barely need to evolve to do anything really
@@capootiscrepitoos it still stands that they have fully formed fingers and hands. I just think it's a bit backwards
I love how creative people can get
Hey man just found your channel, love this kinda stuff. Keep up the good work!
Anyone else think the Horrane look like a lifelike Dr. Seuss drawing? 😂
Incredible work though! I love this area of biology
Imagine a world where you see these animals roaming around futuristic city ruins and architecture worn by time covered in plantation and overgrowth. Rabbucks grazing on plains with giant radio towers and floating broken windmills, gigantelopes pushing away huge metallic fragments hidden underneath snow and ice, it’s crazy how cool and beautiful this concept is.
Until all the Nuclear Power Plants Have a meltdown without Humans there to Contain them. And the world enters a Nuclear winter
Yea
I don't think any of our buildings will last 50 million years, even if they are more advanced.
At the rate nature and time naturally decays, overwhelms, and reclaims man made structures, I highly doubt anything manmade will last more than a few thousand years let alone 1 million.
@@ThePheonix66 some things we made or will make in the future will stay there for a long damn time. If pyramids can last a few thousand years just being rocks, then the stuff we have now must last way longer
Imagine the Future Humans living with these abominations
Also, Monke Swim
Well the concept of the book is precisely to imagine how animals would evolve if humans were to disappear today.
If humans were still around, then it would be a completely different story... For once, I very much doubt most wild animals would survive.
Humans are already an abomination, think naked hairless ape.
@@dietrevich you are so brave to say that.
@@dietrevich 😲 wow vary brave!
Today’s animals are also abominations, we are just too used to them. Imagine seeing an elephant or a giraffe for the first time and being terrified at their abnormal appearances
This is really interesting. However, if the Vortex and Porpin had evolved from Penguins they would more likely be found in the Antarctic and southern oceans rather than the Arctic circle.
My grandma was an english teacher with a massive library. I remember staying at hers as a kid and scouring through said library and finding this book. . . I attribute that moment as forming the basis for my utter adoration towards biology as a whole.
That memory is such a fundamental aspect of the way i perceive the word as it is.
Extremely underrated hope this got more views
Yup
After man, even the title is an art form ,there should be a best title award
I am officially obsessed with this channel
I love like ALL your speculative biology videos. I always want them to be longer lol
I absolutely LOVE this book! I was so excited to find a copy on Ebay! Dougal Dixon created such a cool genre!
Interesting, very interesting. Thanks for posting it.
But it would be interesting to know the climatic and environmental conditions assumed for these evolutions; also possible deviations based on different changes.
Subbed to see if you consider this as a future topic.
I discovered a copy of this book in my nan's house in the early 2000's and thought it was the coolest, most inspired thing I'd ever seen
3:03 im happy this isn't how sonic looked like
But man he be evolving
8:55 *🎵🎶LIFE COULD BE A DREAM, LIFE COULD BE A DREEEEAM🎶🎵*
All this speculative zoology reminds me of a creepypasta I read back in middle school. The government had some secret program where they left a bunch of animals and plants to evolve in a space station with zero gravity. Wolves became parasites latching onto trees, rabbits grew into predators that swam through the air and had large bug eyes on top of their heads, trees and plant life grew all over the place. It was written as horror and the protagonist blew it up and then cried in his spaceship IIRC.
Today, this is stuff is not horror, but a hobby and source of memes. It's like this "creepy" video I saw from 2009 called "who wants to gnaw on human bones" that's basically just the same as the average shitpost now. In fact, it's being treated as one now.
Woah what’s it called I wanna read it?
+Wtf Am I Doing
I don't remember tbh, it's been years. It's probably still there, unless the site was shut down without my knowledge between then and now. I'll try to find it anyways, but you may have luck finding it first with my busy schedule.
Thank you for introducing me to this amazing genre
This was a good thoughtful list, I like how it's not out of the realms of possibilities.
The giant rat actually reminds me of the Thylocene, its gone full circle xD
I have his book for about 15 years. Amazing!
I love All Tomorrows because it starts off rather dark, but ends with the rather positive message of "Love Today and Sieze All Tomorrows."
The chance of each of these species evolve that very way is one in millions, yet nice speculative ideas.
I actually have After Man
I always loved looking at how animals would look like in the future.
I was also thinking of drawing them in my own style.
Make a deviantart account and go ahead.
@@Definitely_not_ai I'm trying to make a DeviantArt account
That Desert Leaper looked cute as hell and now I want one.
My biology teacher waaaay back in highschool loved this book! Wo, I looked for it a few times but never found a copy to buy. Great video, thanks for posting!
Thanx bro! This is supercool! Great inspiration!
This deserves more views
Thanks!
@@CuriousArchive does Douglas mention another highly intelligent being that would replace humans in the speculative zoology? Agree, this deserve more views!
6:49 Rootsucker looks exactly like a Pink armadillo. Smallest of the species and probably the oldest still existing
I remember reading this back in elementary school. It was always my favourite.
I had that book when I was a kid!!!! So many flashbacks, I loved it!
50 million years into the future... The dogs have become the world's most intelligent lifeform and they are working hard to collect human bones, studying its history and displaying it to their museums. Some dog archeologists even named us the dog's best friend saying how helpful we were back in the days where they had us not just a pet but a companion.
Thanks to this video, for the first time in my life I’m asking for books from my parents.
I’m gonna have the time of my life when showing these books to my friends at middle school
: D
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I have the book After man. I loved it as a kid. Super glad this video was suggested to me
guy: so what will the future be like
dixon: small get big
I actually owned this book when I was a kid. Some of the animal concepts are wild!
"I'm glad there's no wolf sized rats today"
Just go to New York bro
I still have my childhood copy. So intriguing and imagination-sparking.
Quite a fascinating video.
8:06 who would have guessed that this whole time, while humans wished to return to monke, monkes wished to return to dino.
I've never seen or read this book, but I feel like it should have a section about how cockroaches and horse-shoe crabs still haven't changed.
Never been here before but the narration was really nice on this one!
I had this book as a kid. Great stuff!
8:25 these are NOT baboons
So Wayne Barlowe Dogal Dixon and C.M. Cosman are basically the holy Trinity of speculative evolution.
Basically haha
I have a Book of The year 1982 that has a mention to this exactly book, looks so interesting the HUGE variety of models that the animal kingdom has to show.
•Shows a picture about Dixon•
*Have you ever wonder what’s going on in their head?*
1:07 1:48 2:08 3:03 3:34 3:50 4:26 4:50 5:16 6:01
There are no penguins in the northern hemisphere, let alone the arctic.
That's quite a speculation.
Not yet xd
5:28 Aquatic dinosaurs back on the menu boys
I am offended
i like to randomly think about stuff like this. But I very rarely bring it up because it's an "out there" topic. Maybe im just overthinking it. im glad there's a video for it :)
I remember this book. I read it as a teen back in the 1980s. I always loved the fanciful animals he came up with.
finally, someone talks about it
It’s interesting to see Dixon’s speculations, especially how he (and a lot of people at that time) didn’t realize that we as a species could have such a profoundly detrimental impact on our environment. I think, given that were this post-human earth, most modern animals wouldn’t be able to inhabit the polluted world we’ll leave behind, and just go extinct
I mean, why do you think almost all the animals here are descended from small animals like rats, bats, rabbits, etc.? All the big ones went extinct.
I suppose that is just the depressing undertone of his species, yet he still manages to realize that life will go on.
And it makes sense that all current megafaunal creatures would go extinct based on Dougal Dixon's thesis; overhunting, rapid climate change, and habitat instability/depletion would be their undoing.
6:03 i heard him trying to hold in his laugh lol
So this unlocked a memory for me. I'm 43, and as a very little kid I clearly remember watching a show on what I think was the Discovery channel that had the Night Stalker featured in it. I remember that a full sized model was made as well and it was a truly weird and terrifying thing to see. Does anyone else remember seeing this? Maybe you could direct me to what show it was.
I absolutely love this channel. In saying so, I have seen large bullfrog eat medium size rats, rabbits and other large frogs.
You would probably be interested in beelzebufo, an extinct frog probably about the size of a chihuahua that is thought to have eaten baby dinosaurs.
Thats not a baboon. 8:15
I thought it was cool that you gave a nod to “the future is wild” I remember I saw that as a kid and was floored by it
The last animal looks so cute. I want that as my pet.