The above cartoon is an example of the types of images that could be found in the journal Evolution: A Journal of Nature which was printed from 1927 to 1938. This journal was created to give pro-evolutionists a platform in which they could use to help rebut anti-evolutionists by bridging the gap between the scientists and everyday people. This was done by presenting science itself in a popular language without being restricted by fundamentalists.
I would like to note here that this journal was looked two and a half years after the Scopes Trial (Famously known as the Monkey Trial). The author Ludwig Erwin Katterfield was not a scientist he was actually a political activists and defender of civil liberties. He did not create these images to debate the details of a scientific theory but instead was fighting against intolerance for the freedom of thought and the values of the Enlightenment.
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