This is Evolution por Stephen Baxter ( link )
Sua memória de "eventos atuais tipo coisas" pode vir de ... a extinção da humanidade!
Nada sobre pessoas em estase, mas há um elemento, no final, de roedores evoluídos pastoreando Elefantes como humanos.Blockquote Human extinction (or the extinction of human culture) also occurs in the book, as well as the end of planet Earth and the rebirth of life on another planet. (The extinction-level event that causes the human extinction is, indirectly, an eruption of the Rabaul caldera, coupled with various actions of humans themselves, some of which are only vaguely referred to, but implied to be a form of genetic engineering which removed the ability to reproduce with non-engineered humans.)