page_title: March of Progress
section_title: Predecessors
hierarchical_section_title: March of Progress / Predecessors
caption_attribution_description: English: An illustration from Project Gutenberg's edition of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." An image of the title page shows "New York: Charles L. Webster &amp; Company. 1889,:
context_page_description: The March of Progress, properly called The Road to Homo Sapiens, is an illustration that presents 25 million years of human evolution. It was created for the Early Man volume of the Life Nature Library, published in 1965, and drawn by the artist Rudolph Zallinger.
  It has been viewed as a picture of the discredited view that evolution is progressive. As such, it has been widely parodied and imitated to create images of progress of other kinds.
  The picture of progress in evolution was anticipated by Thomas Henry Huxley's 1863 Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.
context_section_description: Thomas Henry Huxley's frontispiece to his 1863 book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature was intended simply to compare the skeletons of apes and humans, but its unintentional left-to-right progressionist sequence has according to the historian Jennifer Tucker "become an iconic and instantly recognizable visual shorthand for evolution".
  An illustration, with the caption "Evolution", showing two sequences of four images, each illustrating a gradual transformation of an animal into a human, appeared in the 1889 edition of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
caption: "Evolution" in 1889 edition of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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