This picture shows William Jennings Bryan as the missing link between a professor and an ape. Bryan was a well known fundamentalist that was often mocked in cartoons. He has also been portrayed as an Inquisitor, Don Quixote, and a fool for attacking a scarecrow and for trying to pull a monkey out of a family tree. Pro-evolutionists used monkeys as a way to make fun of antievolutionists. The missing link was a popular way to poke fun at the anti-evolutionists because they would always ask well if we evolved from apes well then where is the creature that is in the middle. Humans did not evolve from apes but instead we share a common ancestor that we both evolved from which is now long extinct.
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