Illustrated science fiction (human) evolution book.

[juushika]

I just sent this to the queue at whatwasthatbook (x-post), but there's no reason not to post it here as well. I want to find these books so desperately, and have had no luck. I'd be forever grateful if someone happened to know what they were. ^_^ And so:

I am looking for a set of illustrated science-fiction books on human and non-human animal evolution.

I read these books in my public middle school library in approximately 1997, so they were published before/around that date and, I assume, were either written for children/young adults or else for all ages. I believe there were two separate books: one for human evolution and one for animal evolution. The latter may have included plants as well, but I don't think so. Both books were heavily, even primarily illustrated, and the pictures were accompanied by explanatory text. The illustrations were full color. I believe the books were tall, wide, and not very thick, and that the pages were glossy.

The books were both theoretical science fiction texts about the possible evolution of humans and animals from the present into the distant future. I remember one specific example of humans developing fins and gills as a response to the changing climate on earth. Some of the animal examples looked like crosses between existing species. For the book on humans, each page featured a different stage in evolution, complete with an illustration.

I've been trying to remember these books for years, and have been searching all variations of "illustrated science fiction evolution book" with no luck. Anyone have any suggestions as to the title and/or author of these texts? It would be greatly appreciated.

ETA: Found! On the whatwasthatbook community, by wonder readers londonkds and pikku_gen. The books are After Man and Man After Man by Dougal Dixon. Not only are these the books, Wikipedia also has some great info on them, and Wiki links to this site, which has almost all of After Man online. Yay.