Fig. 8.

“Development according to Darwin’s theory” in the Fliegende Blätter, the Bavarian equivalent of Punch, in the early 1870s. In the progressive evolution of social types from everyday objects, additional humour comes from the simultaneous evolution, for example, of the lady from a coffee pot, her parasol from a carefully placed spoon and her small dog from a pair of balls. Four pseudo-evolutionary series are aligned in a comparative array. This highlights an increasingly standard visual strategy of Darwinism, as well as the commonness of both evolutionary series and spoofs thereof. “Entwickelungen nach Darwin’s Theorie”, wood-engraving from Fliegende Blätter, lvi (1872), 160. Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.