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Speculative evolution is a subgenre of science fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life, and a significant form of fictional biology. [1] It is also known as speculative biology [ 2 ] and it is referred to as speculative zoology [ 3 ] in regards to hypothetical animals . [ 1 ]
Snaiad was inspired by Wayne Barlowe's 1990 book Expedition, which describes the exploration and the wildlife of an alien world. [1] Other inspirational works included Gert van Dijk's "Furaha" (a similar project focusing on an alien world), the art of Terryl Whitlatch, James Gurney's Dinotopia book series and the works of naturalist painters, such as John James Audubon. [6]
In total, over a hundred different invented animal species are featured in the book, described as part of fleshed-out fictional future ecosystems. Reviews for After Man were highly positive and its success spawned two follow-up speculative evolution books which used new fictional settings and creatures to explain other natural processes: The ...
Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...
All women have evolved to be beautiful, in an illustration by Paul Merwart for a 1911 edition of Camille Flammarion's 1894 novel La Fin du Monde.. Evolution has been an important theme in fiction, including speculative evolution in science fiction, since the late 19th century, though it began before Charles Darwin's time, and reflects progressionist and Lamarckist views as well as Darwin's. [1]
The book aroused international interest, with less controversy than had greeted the popular and less scientific Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. [150] Though Darwin's illness kept him away from the public debates, he eagerly scrutinised the scientific response, commenting on press cuttings, reviews, articles, satires and caricatures ...
In the 1860s, there were three scientific developments that began to bring the focus of the scientific community to the problem of the origin of life. [14] Firstly, the Kant-Laplace Nebular theory of solar system and planetary formation was gaining favor, and implied that when the Earth first formed, the surface conditions would have been ...
From early 2011 to April 2013, Kauffman was a regular contributor to the NPR Blog 13.7, Cosmos and Culture, [17] with topics ranging from the life sciences, systems biology, and medicine, to spirituality, economics, and the law. [17] In May 2013 he joined the Institute for Systems Biology, in Seattle, Washington.