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Evolution illustration

“The Rise and Fall of Man,” The New Yorker (1925)." The ape-to-man image had become the dominant depiction of evolution by the 1920s, according to Clark. This pro-evolution cartoon, published during the Scopes trial, the American legal test of Tennessee’s law against teaching evolution in public schools, depicts a progression and then a backslide, according to the mocking caption: the final image shows William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer defending the anti-evolutionist position. See www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/10/27/what-our-most-famous...

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Uploaded on December 5, 2014
Taken on October 22, 2012