I usually like Werber's books and some science fiction. It accepts a fantastic proposal, a spaceship, with ants of consciousness, a journey through time, and we surrender to the pleasure of reading, the effort of imagination is actually minimal if the book is good. In this novel by against the imagination must be constantly forced against common sense, to interrupt the course of each chapter. I do not return to a style more suited than previous novels, nor on the choice of the Iranian villains and nice French or even the motivation of "heroes" who have nothing better to do than to torture the new humanity that it just created and use them as guinea pigs. This was mentioned by the other player. However torture ruined common sense reading more. From the first chapter, one finds under the ice Antarctic Marine (Australopithecus appeared before but ...) a human body of 17 meters, therefore 10 times the size and 10 times the weight of the current humans, is 700kg. Actually no: 10 times the height so as 10 to 10 times the width times the depth, so 1,000 times the volume: 70 tons, size, and therefore the weight of a whale. I can not imagine taking a step without collapsing multiple fractures suffered. The mini-humans them are 17 cm 7 kg so, in fact rather 700 g admits the author after a moment's reflection, too short. Try to inject half a liter of water in a Barbie yet twice as large doll. The mini-humans weigh 70g and are condemned to walk like Neil Armstrong on the moon or as a marsupilami I not clear. Having a shorter life, humans are mini-adults to 2 years and in this time they manage to swallow all the information, reading, language, the others take 20 years to acquire. For information primate having the largest brain compared to its body is the Capuchin monkey - the man in second - and if it does not reach the level of consciousness of a chimpanzee or elephant, c ' Precisely because it has a life cycle and especially a very short childhood. Looking perhaps nit all explanations but "scientists" have the same barrel. A cold wave removed the giant because it has a greater surface area exposed to cold, except that it is the opposite, a larger volume is more resistant to thermal shock, brown bear triples its weight between the Pyrenees and Siberia, and Sweden are larger than the Portuguese. A meteorite falls to earth there 65 million years (true), changes the tilt of the earth (false, not serious) and thus changes its gravity ??? The severity depends only on the weight of the earth and you can look like you want a ball, it always makes the same weight. We find the first man, the fruit of love of a primate and a warthog. In conclusion wacky a previous book, it could go even if it's genetically silly, but falling in the middle of another novel and in the context of a descendant of 17 m, the fact remains that the ridiculous. An epidemic kills a quarter of humanity, it was an interesting science fiction. This seems vaguely reach an indescribable chaos ..., and moreover not describe as heroes live the entire episode out of touch in their bunker. This could be a book, see a trilogy, and it's sloppy in two chapters, then, nothing ... Just off again as before. The last time that an epidemic has swept away a quarter of the population, the old stable and prosperous feudal order was swept away all the old values in question and discounts contemporaries called themselves the period "Renaissance". For Werber against it by absolutely nothing happens, and this gives me the uncomfortable feeling that a great novel has not been written. Continue. The epidemic is stopped abruptly by a snowfall ... in Paris. The Australian will be happy. Atlantis, the pyramids, Easter Island, all the ingredients of science fiction unimaginative parade. It is curious that it remains so difficult to imagine the ancestors of those big Egyptian or Mayan rednecks build pyramids without the help of gods, aliens, see Westerners. The Eiffel Tower has never been used against a cosmic antenna, amazing right? I ended up thinking I had missed a second well hidden humor degree, especially when we learn that the bunker is guarded by a chihuahua, more dangerous than a big dog because it can hide and that his small "forces him to be more vicious." I was wondering why Bill Gates was recycled bodyguard Mike Tyson. I finally read this novel as a series of still incorrect peremptory assertions, a string of pearls ridiculous, and not as a story. It seems that others have enjoyed. Bernard Werber has good storytelling talent, this may be enough to fans, I am no longer. Please Mr. Werber, could you do a trilogy about the epidemic?