This cartoon is attempting to hint at the way many people view how evolution works. It shows that many people feel evolution is linear and progressive. The progressive nature is portrayed by the glum look upon the caveman’s face as he sees that he is not near the superior end of the path. This cartoon shows that the popular view of evolution does not coincide with the Darwinian view of evolution. In Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, he explicitly creates a branching diagram to argue for nonlinear, nonteleolgical evolution.
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