2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings

"Hoyle argues that evolution is caused by viruses landing on earth in meteorites which mutate their hosts DNA. In this way dinosaurs were mutated by the K-T event into mammals and birds."

3.98 avg rating — 128 ratings

"Creationist work which interprets fossil strata in terms of a strictly Christian creation narrative. Lush illustrations inform novel and often persuasive arguments, such as the horn on the back of a Parasaurolophus' head was tube mechanism for breathing fire."

3.69 avg rating — 5,562 ratings

"Suggests that humans are the over-developed sex organs of two cellular species engaged in symbiotic warfare since the dawn of time - sperm and ova.
Plot concerns invertebrates from the Cambrian period which have evolved in sealed island gene pool into saurian super-predators. Poor quality of writing, lazy mean-spirited narrative."

3.89 avg rating — 8,154 ratings

"Each individual passes gradually through all evolutionary stages, with few making it to the level of human.
Burroughs' idea of an entire history of evolution taking place over a single organism's lifetime was intended as a challenge to religious and scientific writers of the time. A similar premise was used by J.G. Ballard in his story 'Dream Cargoes'"

3.91 avg rating — 9,401 ratings

"Evolution of all life (A term which is revealed to include stars and nova as sentient beings existing in a totally different experiential reality to humans) is part of a gradual, creative cumulative momentum toward the creator.
Stapledon finds fragile potential for myths of change and hope in the great impersonal yawn of future deep-time."

3.79 avg rating — 6,930 ratings

"13 major species of "man" rise and fall over the millennial course of this future-history, which places the drive for a creativity and transcendence at the centre of the human evolution narrative."

3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings

"Observing the number of species which go extinct for stretches at a time only to seemingly reappear out of nowhere and start to flourish centuries later, Michell wonders if evolution moves in a non-linear flow through ghostly memories of extinct species recorded in the material of the environments where once they lived like hibernating seeds, through which a species might be gradually re-asserted into the ecosystem through initially spectral, increasingly tangible excursions in the material world."

3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings

"Holiday's theory holds that the Loch Ness Monster is a giant prehistoric invertebrate, which is part literal material animal and part evil, demonic manifestation of dark desires and whimsy which has charged the space of loch ness with a sort of Jungian magic emanating from the unconscious mind."

4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings

"Reviewing the number of out of place fossils, such as a human sandal print crushing a bug in the Triassic and human tracks alongside dinosaurs, as well as mysterious undated ruins and carvings, Steiger suggests that humans may actually derive from a type of giant frog or toad in the swamps of the Early Carboniferous period."

4.13 avg rating — 966 ratings

"Convincingly demonstrated argument against the masculine bias in evolutionary thought. Morgan proposes that through emphasizing uniquely human features culturally associated with femininity, omitted from the language of the dominating, male-oriented evolutionary models, we can observe how a period of aquatic or semi-aquatic life was causative in human evolution. Morgan lucidly picks apart the myths of male supremacy which run through the literature all the while crafting an equally viable, equally weird theory which reveals the dominant model for the imaginative product it is."

3.24 avg rating — 75 ratings

3.94 avg rating — 640 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating