Dougal Dixon
Dougal Dixon | |
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Dougal Dixon in 2009 with a model of a "Strida", one of the creatures featured in his 2010 book Greenworld | |
| Born | 1 March 1947 Dumfries, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
| Known for | After Man Foundation of the speculative evolution movement Palaeontology and geology books |
| Spouse | Jean Dixon (m. 1971) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | See text |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology Palaeontology |
| Website | www |
Dougal Dixon (born 1 March 1947) is a Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, educator and author. Dixon has written well over a hundred books on geology and palaeontology, many of them for children, which have been credited with attracting many to the study of the prehistoric animals. Because of his work as a prolific science writer, he has also served as a consultant on dinosaur programmes.
Dixon is most famous for his 1980/90s trilogy of speculative evolution books: After Man (1981), The New Dinosaurs (1988) and Man After Man (1990). These books use imagined future and alternate animals to explain various natural processes, including evolution, natural selection, zoogeography and climate change.