![]() ![]() There were no other features in their blank faces, and the bodies, the mass of the things, seemed to be composed of dark-green fiber, coarse and stringy-looking. But there all human resemblance ceased, Owen. They walked erect on two limbs, and had two arms or feelers, and between their - shoulders - they carried a bulbous mass in which were set their eyes, two circles of blank, dead white, with which they could see. ![]() “‘I call them plant-men, for they were roughly human in shape, more human-shaped, in fact than Brilling himself. One species of plant outlives all the rest, becoming a thinking and moving form of plant-man. Eventually all the animals died out, leaving the plants to change. The experiment allowed them to see animals evolve into future forms then die off. ![]() A year later Walton seeks out Owen and tells him what has happened. Walton and his assistant Brilling buy an island so they can test their new evolving ray. “Evolution Island” ( Weird Tales, March 1927) has Dr. ![]()
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