It is perhaps the earliest work of fiction dealing with the afterwards popular theme of humanity being replaced by other intelligent primates in the future, later epitomized by Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes. The story has been translated into Danish, Swedish and Italian. It first appeared in book form in the anthology A Treasury of Science Fiction (Crown Publishers, 1948) it later appeared in the anthologies Gates to Tomorrow (Atheneum, 1973), and The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 1 ( Tor Books, 1999). It was first published in the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction for February 1939. Sprague de Camp, on the concepts of human extinction and future evolution. "Living Fossil" is a science fiction story by American writer L.
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