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Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate?.../ Evolution / face on putter
Following up his cosmic Manifold series, Stephen Baxter peers back on a more prosaic history in the worthy yet uneven Evolution. The book is nothing less than a novelization of human evolution, a mega-Michener treatment of 65 million years starring a host of smart, furry primates representing Homo sapiens's ancestry. Each stage of our ancestry is represented by a character of progressively increasing intelligence, empathy, and brain size, who must survive predation and other perils long enough to keep the natural-selection ball rolling. While Baxter carefully follows some widely accepted theories of evolution--punctuated equilibrium, for instance--he also strays from the known in postulating air whales and sentient, tool-wielding dinosaurs. And why not? There's nothing in the fossil record to contradict his musings about those things, or about the first instances of mammalian altruism and deception, which he also lets us observe. From little Purga, a shrewlike mammal scurrying under the feet of ankylosaurs, all the way through Ultimate, the last human descendant, Baxter adds drama and a strong story arc to our past and future. But he spends too much time on details of the various prehumans' lives, which can become repetitive: fight, mate, die, ad infinitum. And readers eager for a science-fictional adventure will only find satisfaction in the posthuman chapters at the end. Despite these flaws, Evolution grips the attention with an epoch-spanning tale of the random changes that rule our genetic heritage. Recommended. --Therese Littleton.../ Evolution / face on putter
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A refreshing, very well researched book. I enjoyed it greatly. With only one quibble. He depicts us as successfully depositing a Neumann probe on Mars, just before our civilisation collapses. The probe replicates itself. Its descendents undergo machine evolution, subject to much the same forces as biological evolution. Eventually the robots dismantle Mars and have some kind of rocket drive that lets them wander. This is just a minor subplot; the book concerns itself mostly with Earth.
But the way he wrote the fate of Mars seemed strongly ominous. If the robots could dismantle it, and has rockets, surely Earth would be a natural destination for some of them? It is the closest planet to Mars, for one. Sheer proximity, and the fact that there are a plethora of robots and that we are surveying geological time spans would ensure this. (Somewhat akin to Saberhagen's Berserkers.) Subsequent chapters never follow up. This I found very implausible, given his premises.
On an unrelated note: The fate of Mankind is indeed shown as depressing. Am I reading too much between the lines? Or is there an unstated advocacy for human space travel? For the colonisation of other worlds? Nowhere are these explicitly stated, apart maybe from the abovementioned robot probe to Mars. And that did not involve human travel. But by presenting a possible depiction of our fate if we do not get off this globe, is Baxter trying to say this?
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