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The book ends by examining the question of whether humanity is a parochial Earth-centric concept, or whether intelligent alien life should also be considered human. The book draws on the work of paleontologist Simon Conway Morris on convergent evolution, [9] and on Universal Darwinism, popularised by Richard Dawkins. [10]
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (1979; second edition 1987) is a science fiction-themed book by artist Wayne Barlowe, with Ian Summers and Beth Meacham (who provided the text). It contains Barlowe's visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or ...
Humanoids may also include human-animal hybrids (where each cell has partly human and partly animal genetic contents) and human-animal chimeras (where some cells are human and some cells are animal in origin). [2] Science fiction media frequently present sentient extraterrestrial lifeforms as humanoid as a byproduct of convergent evolution.
This was changed by the 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, which proposed the theory of evolution. Now with the notion that evolution on other planets may take other directions, science fiction authors created bizarre aliens, clearly distinct from humans. A usual way to do that was to add body features from other animals ...
Speaker-to-Animals (later known as Chmeee) is a junior diplomat, trained to deal with other species without reflexively killing them. He is recruited by Nessus, a Pierson's Puppeteer, as a member of an expedition to explore the Ringworld. [6] [7] Speaker is a Kzin, a member of an extraterrestrial race of large, tiger-like beings.
Grey aliens were conceived as a result of the Barney and Betty Hill incident. The Barney and Betty Hill incident took place in 1961 when the couple claimed that they were abducted by aliens and subjected to invasive experiments. It was the first recorded claim of an alien abduction, soon followed by others. The description of the aliens made by ...
His theory becomes accepted as all over the world, packs of animals are entering densely populated cities and killing humans en masse. He is recruited by the US president to research the cause but before he and his team of scientists can find an answer, the president's daughter is killed by their dog and the military launches strikes against ...
In 1955, Austrian occultist Zoe Wassilko-Serecki argued that the saucers were ionospheric animals. [16] [1] Her writings, in turn, influenced Ivan T. Sanderson who became the "most eminent advocate" of the space animal idea. [1] [17] [18] In 1967, Sanderson authored a book on the topic: Uninvited Visitors: A Biologist Looks at UFOs.