World War III destroyed everything, but left behind a staggering biodiversity. Two surviving scientists travel through an unknown France, watching how insects and their arthropod cousins have retrieved the world.Water ants, paper scorpions, giant beetles... thanks to the latest discoveries in evolutionary science and comparative anatomy, Lucas Etienne and Jean-Sébastien Steyer reveal new species that are as captivating as they are disturbing, with their stunning shapes and puzzling behaviors... in a stunningly realistic style, their story explores the wonders of evolution: simulation, parasitism, grandeur...
A wilderness journey that combines science, philosophy, and visual beauty, envisioning a future in which humans are no longer at the center, but merely onlookers to a new world inhabited by insects.
