Future Evolution, Peter Ward
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Images by
ALEXIS ROCKMAN
Foreword by
NILES ELDREDGE
A W. H. Freeman Book
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To H. G. Wells and his descendants
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I would like to thank the following people for various reasons:
Sam Fleischman
Diana Blume
Rob
DeSalle
Jill Rowe
Kirk Johnson
Daniel
Heiminder
John Michel
Kurt Keifer
Carl
Zimmer
Niles Eldredge
Andrew Vallely
Alisa
Tager
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Tom Sanford
Anne
Pasternak
And I would like to thank my gallerists Jay Gorney,
Karin Bravin,
and John Lee,
and
especially
Rodney
Hill.
—A.R.
Henry Holt® is a registered trademark of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Copyright © 2001 by Peter Ward (text) and Alexis Rockman (images).
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ward, Peter
Future evolution / Peter Ward; images by Alexis Rockman; foreword by
Niles Eldredge.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.
).
ISBN 0-7167-3496-6 (cloth)
1. Evolution (Biology) I. Title.
QH366.2 .W37 2001
576.8—dc21
2001003607
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First Edition 2001
Designed by Diana Blume
Printed in Hong Kong
10
987654321
IMAGES
Facing page
The Farm, 2000
The Rise of Mammals,
1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
32 X 40 inches
North America, 1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
40 X 60 inches
La Brea Tar Pit Drawings
(clockwise from upper
left): Saber tooth cat;
American mastodon;
camel; La Brea condor.
La Brea tar and lacquer
on gessoed paper, 11 X
8.5 inches*
First Encounter
Watercolor and ink on
paper, 26.25 X 38.25
inches
Fragments, 1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
64 X 96 inches
The Beach: Demerara
River Delta, 1994-96
Oil, sand, polymer,
lacquer, mixed media on
wood, 96 X 64 inches
Pasture, Scrub, Cecropia,
Primary and Secondary
Forest, 1998
Watercolor and ink on
paper, 30.50 X 41 inches
36
1;
page 102
Oil and acrylic on wood,
96 X 120 inches
Page 12
Lystrosaurus and the
Permian, 1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
48 X 40 inches
ze
40
Page 1
6
Four Interpretations of
Gorgon Heads, Genus
Rubidgea
(clockwise from
upper left): reptilian; two
after the fashion on a
mammal-like reptile;
amphibian.
Permian sediment and
polymer on paper,
8.5 X 11 inches*
Page 42
Page 46
Page 19
Early Therapods Mating,
1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
40 X 48 inches
Page 49
Page 25
Chicxulub, 1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
56 X 44 inches
Page 62
Page 27
Triceratops and the K-T
Extinction, 1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
24 X 18 inches
Page 69
Page 31
Velociraptor Pursues
Cretaceous Mammal, 1998
Oil and acrylic on wood,
40 X 32 inches
IMAGES
Pages 74-75
A Recent History of the
World, 1997-98
Oil and acrylic on wood,
58 X 255.75 inches
Page 116
Snake Evolution, 2000
Watercolor and ink on
paper, (graphic overlay),
24 X 18 inches
Page 127
Crow Evolution, 2000
Watercolor and ink on paper
(graphic overlay),
24 X 18 inches
Page 78
Central Park, 1997-98
Acrylic and oil on two
wood panels,
8 X 80 inches (overall)
Page 129
Pig Evolution, 2000
Watercolor and ink on paper
(graphic overlay),
24 X 18 inches
Page 84
Concrete Jungle III,
1992
Oil on wood, 56 X 44
inches
Page 94
Concrete Jungle II,
1991
Oil on wood, 96 X 64
inches
Page 131
Burgess Shale Drawings
(clockwise from upper left):
Opabinia, Anomalocaris,
Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia.
Pulverized shale and polymer
on paper, 11 X 8.5 inches
(one vertical drawing),
8.5 X 11 inches (three
horizontal drawings)*
Page
106
Drainage Ditch:
Georgetown, Guyana,
1995
Oil on two wood panels,
60 X 100 inches
Page 138
The Hammock, 2000
Oil on wood, 60 X 72
inches
Page 118
Thylacine, 1997
Watercolor and ink on
paper, 26.25 X 38.25
inches
Page 154
The Triumph of Humans,
2001
Watercolor and ink on paper,
17 X 14 inches
Page 122-123
Rat Evolution, 1999
Oil and acrylic on wood,
15 X 50 inches
Page 115
Dandelion Evolution,
2000
Watercolor and ink on
paper (graphic overlay),
24 X 18 inches
Page 168
The Evaporated World, 2000
Watercolor and ink on paper,
24 X 18 inches
*These drawings were created with pigments derived from the medium in which the actual fossils were
discovered, provided to the artist by the author.
All images courtesy of Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York. All works were photographed by Oren Slor,
New York.
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