Dougal Dixon [SEP] place of birth
Dougal Dixon
Dougal Dixon (born Dumfries, May 9, 1947) is a Scottish palaeontologist, geologist and author.
Biography.
Dixon studied geology and palaeontology at the University of St. Andrews and is best known for his illustrated works of speculative fiction, which largely concern "zoologies of the future": his own visions of how human beings and animals might evolve in millions of years' time. 
He is considered the founder of the genre of speculative evolution.
Books.
Texts:
- "
the 17th century AD.
- 1988 "Fire on the Mountain" by Terry Bisson, John Brown succeeded in his raid on Harpers Ferry and touched off a slave rebellion in 1859.
- 1988 "Gray Victory" by Robert Skimin, taking place in an alternate 1866 where the Confederacy won its independence and has placed Jeb Stuart on trial for losing the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 1988 "" by Dougal Dixon, a book chronicling the world had the dinosaurs not died out 65 million years ago but instead had