The human race has been reduced to just one last living man - in verse 4 the wars have wiped out civilisation in temperate zones, so all the survivors are either in the tropics or in the remote parts of the world. The fatal wound on the human race is self inflicted - Note that man is the ‘penultimate primate', presumably the monkey he is stalking is the last! The dominant species now seems to be a giant insect, perhaps an ant ‘foraging detail', ‘green-fly', ‘jaws', round eyes', ‘forked arms', ‘soldier' ‘worker', Perhaps it is impossible to pin it down to one species, but perhaps a mutation, the result of the nuclear wars that destroyed mankind.
The last human survivor is described as a pathetic creature living in an almost stone-age existence, mud caked, half-armed, frightened. Yet he is still aggressive towards other species - another trait which led to his own destruction.
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