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Illustrations of alternative human evolution from the 1930s

Posted by / January 3, 2014
Insect-Men

Insect-Men

Like finches on the Galapagos, what if humans had evolved into specialized beings, with extra legs to scale mountainous regions, extra arms to wrangle litters of young or a sleeker shape to navigate the waterways?

In the 1930s, French artist Lucian Rudaux illustrated the imaginings of Professor Rene Thevenin, resulting in these weird visions of what humanity could have become with a mutation here or there, and, of course, someone to love them.

Fish-Men

Fish-Men

Electric-Men

Electric-Men

Full story at io9 via Neatorama.

Sci-fi art.

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