Other cartoons took a look at the idea of evolution being a progressive sequence and that humans have reached the pinnacle of evolution. This suggests that Homo sapiens have reached an evolutionary end and a good one at that. These cartoons include the implied teleology while at the same time making fun of it. This often made of the primate cartoons very un-Darwinian. Some even went as far as to imply that only monkeys and apes evolved. This is depicted in the above cartoon titles “The Upstart” from the magazine Judge the summer of the Scopes trial, where a monkey sets off the evolve leaving all of the other animals behind.
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