Man Is But a Worm

                This cartoon starts out with the “lower” life form an earthworm that as you travel along the spiral gradually changes into “higher” life forms until it ends up as Darwin. The earthworm is a play at Darwin because he wrote often about earthworms his books. While the path in this cartoon is a spiral it is essentially hinting at a linear progression showing the Great Chain of Being.  This is again example of how in many instances people deviated from the theory of natural selection and instead when towards a more teleological viewpoint even though this has been debunked by scientists.