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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The book was originally supposed to be a direct sequel to ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'' involving human time travelers colonizing the book's far-future NewEden and killing everything, but this was changed due to ExecutiveMeddling. Dixon himself actually had very little to do with the final product apart from lending it name recognition.
** Interestingly, a LighterAndSofter version of that very premise was used in ''another'' spinoff of a Dougal Dixon work, namely the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/TheFutureIsWild''.
** Interestingly, a LighterAndSofter version of that very premise was used in ''another'' spinoff of a Dougal Dixon work, namely the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/TheFutureIsWild''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The book was originally supposed to be a direct sequel to ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'' involving human time travelers colonizing the book's far-future NewEden and killing everything, but this was changed due to ExecutiveMeddling. Dixon himself actually had very little to do with the final product apart from lending it name recognition.
**recognition. Interestingly, a LighterAndSofter version of that very premise was used in ''another'' spinoff of a Dougal Dixon work, namely the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/TheFutureIsWild''.
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** Interestingly, a LighterAndSofter version of that very premise was used in ''another'' spinoff of a Dougal Dixon work, namely the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/TheFutureIsWild''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The book was originally supposed to be a direct sequel to ''AfterMan'' ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'' involving human time travelers colonizing the book's far-future NewEden and killing everything, but this was changed due to ExecutiveMeddling. Dixon himself actually had very little to do with the final product apart from lending it name recognition.recognition.
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* CreatorBacklash: Dixon is [[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2014/04/04/an-interview-with-dougal-dixon/ not particularly fond]] of the final version of the book, possibly because he originally wanted the book to have a completely different plot (see What Could Have Been below).
* ScienceMarchesOn: For starters, the species Dixon notes as the first human, ''Ramapithecus'', was later found to actually be an earlier-discovered species called ''Sivapithecus'', an early relative of the orangutan, not humans. Oops. Still, his description of an early proto-human still holds water.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The book was originally supposed to be a direct sequel to ''AfterMan'' involving human time travelers colonizing the book's far-future NewEden and killing everything, but this was changed due to ExecutiveMeddling. Dixon himself actually had very little to do with the final product apart from lending it name recognition.
* ScienceMarchesOn: For starters, the species Dixon notes as the first human, ''Ramapithecus'', was later found to actually be an earlier-discovered species called ''Sivapithecus'', an early relative of the orangutan, not humans. Oops. Still, his description of an early proto-human still holds water.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The book was originally supposed to be a direct sequel to ''AfterMan'' involving human time travelers colonizing the book's far-future NewEden and killing everything, but this was changed due to ExecutiveMeddling. Dixon himself actually had very little to do with the final product apart from lending it name recognition.
