Mankind seems to suffer from an inability to recognize and understand what it is doing to its own environment. In this book Dr Magee considers the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and shows that its symptoms were just the symptoms of the mass extinction which is occurring at present. Is it possible that the dinosaurs developed intelligence and destroyed themselves just as present day humans seem to be doing? The author examines the evidence in detail and shows that the dinosaurs gave every indication of being ready to become intelligent. Some species of dinosaur somewhere had all the attributes considered necessary for intelligence in the intelligent mammal. The latter has used its gift to begin the destruction of the world within 200 years of inventing technology. If the intelligent dinosaur had done the same, all that would remain of it in the fossil record would be an oily smear, polluted with heavy metals and exotic compounds. That is just what we find when the dinosaurs died.
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This book is about the mass extinction of species. One technologically superior species of mammal reached domination over the planet at the end of the 20th century: one species of dinosaur achieved human-like intelligence at the end of the Cretaceous Period. In only a moment in geological time, each destroyed the majority of co-existing higher life forms.
From early days, experts of various persuasions have demonstrated their prejudices and incompetence. A non-expert should not feel obliged to accept an expert’s opinion, nor feel inhibited about trespassing on the experts’ demesne. Our future might depend upon confronting the experts.
We examine details of the lifestyles and physiology of dinosaurs. Our hypothesis depends on the dinosaurs not being the ponderous, cold-blooded lizards of common belief. The dinosaurs were physiologically sophisticated. Otherwise the suggestion that “reptiles” could achieve intelligence would be rightly laughable.
The growth of intelligence in the mammals, culminating in mankind, highlights features necessary for intelligence to develop in animals.
We seek in dinosaurs the features of the intelligent animal. Dinosaurs often had the necessary features and indeed owed their superiority over the mammals for millions of years to having evolved them.
Similar answers to evolutionary problems arise repeatedly. Convergence suggests that the solution of the problem of the evolution of intelligence in mammals and dinosaurs would yield similar features in both.
By making deductions from convergence we can reveal otherwise unsuspected possibilities. Humans have many characteristics of aquatic animals, pointing to an extended period of partial submergence which could explain a gap of four million years in our fossil record.
Evolution can occur astonishingly quickly. Intelligent dinosaurs could evolve, as Homo sapiens did, in a geologically short time. Because evolution and extinction were rapid they left few traces.
We ponder briefly on the possible appearance and nature of the intelligent dinosaurs (called Anthroposaurus sapiens to emphasise their similarity to the intelligent mammal).
Puzzles in old rocks could be remains of the dinosaurian civilization. Though this should be the most important evidence, it is poorly documented, having been glossed over or ignored by the experts. But even without it the circumstantial case remains strong.
We review the welter of theories concerning the end of the dinosaurs and from them identify underlying causes.
The destruction of the dinosaurs compares with that going on in the present world. We show how today’s extinctions have the same underlying causes and warn of experts who ridicule public fears and distract attention from genuine concerns.
Perhaps we are doomed to self extinction like the anthroposaurs because we have inherited some self destructive traits from them. We attempt an initial diagnosis of the dinosaur heritage in human psychology.
Why are we constantly interested in monsters like dinosaurs? Are the squamous anthropoids that preceded us lying sleeping, awaiting their opportunity to retrieve the world they lost? A subliminal awareness of this might explain our obsession with monsters.