Scottish geologist, paleontologist, educator and author
Dougal Dixon
Dougal Dixon in 2009 with a model of a "Strida", one of the creatures featured in his 2010 book Greenworld
Born
(1947-03-01) 1 March 1947 (age 77)
Dumfries, Scotland
Nationality
Scottish
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Alma mater
University of St Andrews
Known for
After Man Foundation of the speculative evolution movement Palaeontology and geology books
Spouse
Jean Dixon (m. 1971)
Children
2
Awards
See text
Scientific career
Fields
Geology Palaeontology
Website
www.dougal-dixon.co.uk
Dougal Dixon (born 1 March 1947) is a Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, educator and author. Dixon has written well over a hundred books on geology and palaeontology, many of them for children, which have been credited with attracting many to the study of the prehistoric animals. Because of his work as a prolific science writer, he has also served as a consultant on dinosaur programmes.
Dixon graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a Master of Science in 1970 and has since then worked in a variety of occupations, including as a geological consultant, tutor and teacher, a practical geologist on geological expeditions and as a civilian instructor for the Air Training Corps, a British volunteer-military youth organisation. At present, he lives in Wareham, Dorset, where he works as a full-time author and book editor and also manages a local movie theatre.
Dixon is most famous for his 1980/90s trilogy of speculative evolution books: After Man (1981), The New Dinosaurs (1988) and Man After Man (1990). These books use imagined future and alternate animals to explain various natural processes, including evolution, natural selection, zoogeography and climate change. Through these books, Dixon is often recognised as the founder of the modern speculative evolution movement, an artistic and scientific movement focused on speculative paths in the evolution of life. Dixon has contributed to the movement following the publication of his trilogy, for instance publishing the book Greenworld in 2010 and serving as a consultant and contributor to the 2002 miniseries The Future is Wild.
DougalDixon (born 1 March 1947) is a Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, educator and author. Dixon has written well over a hundred books on geology...
significant "founding" works of speculative evolution is After Man by DougalDixon, published in 1981. To this day, After Man is recognized as the first...
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science fiction book written by Scottish geologist and palaeontologist DougalDixon and illustrated by Philip Hood. The book also features a foreword by...
book written by Scottish geologist and paleontologist DougalDixon and primarily illustrated by Dixon himself, alongside a few images by other artists. Greenworld...
speculative evolution book written by Scottish geologist and palaeontologist DougalDixon and illustrated by several illustrators including Diz Wallis, John Butler...
speculative evolution book written by Scottish geologist and palaeontologist DougalDixon and illustrated by several illustrators including Amanda Barlow, Peter...
Adams in 1996 and developed together with various scientists, including DougalDixon, best known as the author of the 1981 book After Man, which also explored...
"Of After Man, The New Dinosaurs and Greenworld: an interview with DougalDixon". Scientific American Blog Network (Interview). Archived from the original...
Dragons A species of predatory flightless bat in the book After Man by DougalDixon 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), a United States...
consisting of similar abstract imagery After Man and Man After Man by DougalDixon, books illustrating speculated future zoology and anthropology, respectively...
Far future in fiction Near future in fiction Man After Man (1990) by DougalDixon – a more recent book based on the same premise. All Tomorrows (2008)...
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featured in the film, were inspired by the speculative evolution works of DougalDixon, especially his book The New Dinosaurs (1988), which speculated on what...
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the Battle of Gettysburg. The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution DougalDixon Non-avian dinosaurs do not die out 65 million years ago but instead keep...
addresses his own opinion of future evolution and compares it with DougalDixon's After Man: A Zoology of the Future and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine...
giant predatory flightless bat featured in DougalDixon's 1981 speculative evolution book After Man; Dixon himself believes the night stalker to have...
Egg (1980) Modern movement (1981–present) Notable authors Wayne Barlowe DougalDixon C. M. Kosemen Olaf Stapledon Gerolf Steiner Peter Ward H. G. Wells...
Egg (1980) Modern movement (1981–present) Notable authors Wayne Barlowe DougalDixon C. M. Kosemen Olaf Stapledon Gerolf Steiner Peter Ward H. G. Wells...
Edward K. Smallwood, Adega Zuidema, Steve Hanly, Kevin Warwick and DougalDixon. The viewer is in an intergalactic spaceship named the S.S. Attenborough...
Cretaceous Eras (World Encyclopedia) by DougalDixon The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Prehistoric Life by DougalDixon The Diprotodontids 3D rotatable model...
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