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Evolution is a collection of short stories that work together to form an episodic science fiction novel. It follows 565 million years of human evolution, from shrewlike mammals 65 million years in the past to the ultimate fate of humanity (and its descendants, both biological and non-biological) 500 million years in the future.
The primary protagonist in Evolution is evolution itself (although primates as a group constitute another protagonist). The book follows the hero’s course as it shapes surviving pre-humans into tree dwellers, remoulds a group that drifts from Africa to a (then much closer) New World on a raft formed out of debris, and confronting others with a terrible dead end as ice clamps down on Antarctica.
The stream of DNA runs on elsewhere, where ape-like creatures in North Africa are forced out of their diminishing forests to come across grasslands where their distant descendants will later run joyously. At one point, hominids become sapient, and go on to develop technology, including a universal constructor machine that goes to Mars and multiplies, and in an act of global ecophagy consumes Mars by converting the planet into its descendants. Human extinction (or the extinction of human culture) also occurs in the book, as well as the end of planet Earth and the rebirth of life on another planet. (The extinction-level event that causes the human extinction is, indirectly, an eruption of the volcano Rabaul, coupled with various actions of humans themselves, some of which are only vaguely referred to, but implied to be a form of genetic engineering which removed the ability to reproduce with non-engineered humans.) Also to be found in Evolution are ponderous Romans, sapient dinosaurs, the last of the wild Neanderthals, a primate who witnesses the extinction of the dinosaurs, symbiotic primate-tree relationships, mole people, and primates who live on a Mars-like Earth.
- Начало книги
- Prologue
- ONE Ancestors
- CHAPTER 1 Dinosaur Dreams Montana, North America. Circa 65 million years before present.
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- CHAPTER 2 The Hunters of Pangaea Pangaea. Circa 145 million years before present.
- CHAPTER 3 The Devil ’s Tail North America. Circa 65 million years before present.
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- CHAPTER 4 The Empty Forest Texas, North America. Circa 63 million years before present.
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- CHAPTER 5 The Time of Long Shadows Ellesmere Island, North America. Circa 51 million years before present.
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- CHAPTER 6 The Crossing Congo River, West Africa. Circa 32 million years before present.
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- CHAPTER 7 The Last Burrow Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Circa 10 million years before present.
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- CHAPTER 8 Fragments North African coast. Circa 5 million years before present.
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- TWO Humans
- Interlude
- CHAPTER 9 The Walkers Central Kenya, East Africa. Circa 1.5 million years before present.
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- CHAPTER 10 The Crowded Land Central Kenya, East Africa. Circa 127,000 years before present.
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- CHAPTER 11 Mother ’s People Sahara, North Africa. Circa 60,000 years before present.
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- CHAPTER 12 Raft Continent
- I Indonesian Peninsula, Southeast Asia. Circa 52,000 years before present.
- II Northwestern Australia. Circa 51,000 years before present.
- III New South Wales, Australia. Circa 47,000 years before present.
- CHAPTER 13 Last Contact Western France. Circa 31,000 years before present.
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- CHAPTER 14 The Swarming People Anatolia, Turkey. Circa 9,600 years before present.
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- CHAPTER 15 The Dying Light Rome. Common Era [CE] 482.
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- CHAPTER 16 An Entangled Bank Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. CE 2031.
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- THREE Descendants
- CHAPTER 17 A Long Shadow Place and time unknown.
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- CHAPTER 18 The Kingdom of the Rats East Africa. Circa 30 million years after present.
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- CHAPTER 19 A Far Distant Futurity Montana, Central New Pangaea. Circa 500 million years after present.
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- Epilogue
- Afterword
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