Humanity begins to play around with its own genetics, like a kid with LEGO blocks on a large scale, creating new humanoid creatures known as aquamorphs and aquatics (or basically Fish People), and vacuumorph beings that have been engineered for life in the vacuum of space. The main plot of the book starts 200 years from now (2190 AD), which for the book's scale is almost the present day. Also unlike Dixon's previous two books, this one has a narrative component and focuses on individuals across time rather than entire species, even giving them individual names. Unlike Dixon's previous two outings, this book deliberately ignores the laws of evolution, biology, and genetics when the plot calls for it these contrivances are not helped by the unsettling pictures and imagery that accompany the posthumans of the distant future. Allegedly a science-fiction account of future human evolution, the premise and its accompanying illustrations can come off as disturbing. Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (1990) is the third speculative evolution book written by Scottish geologist Dougal Dixon, and the most controversial installment of the trio.
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