Page Six

A collection of images on the theme, from the opening chapter of Stephen Jay Gould's book 'Wonderful Life' (Hutchinson Radius edition, 1990):

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Fig. 1.8

Fig. 1.9

Fig. 1.10

Fig. 1.11 (See also, page one of this site.)

Fig. 1.12

Another colleague's tee-shirt.

Atheists - The Origin of the Species

BBC News - Wednesday 4th December 2013

A birthday card

From:

An article in New Scientist 22nd April 1995 entitled 'The rise and fall of big people'.

From:

The Daily Mail article 'Will you live to 100? Scientists pinpoint 19 markers that tell you if you will have a long life'.

(This image has been used before and can be found on page three of this site.)

From xmind.net. (My preferred mind mapping software.)

From the BBC television programme 'Only Connect' (Series 8 - Episode 4) shown on 14th Oct. 2013.

From: Gregoire & Gallagher's 'Life Sciences', Campion Press (1992).

From: Miller & Van Loon's 'Darwin for Beginners' (pp26-7) (Writers and Readers, 1982).

From: Miller & Van Loon's 'Darwin for Beginners' (back cover) (Writers and Readers, 1982).

Two examples, from a shop selling tee-shirts in Chester.

(As the proprietor chased me away for taking this photograph, I won't say which shop.)

Somebody's tattoos from Cigar Box Nation. (It seems to have been removed from that site though.)

Other's from StumbleCol can be found on page five of this site.

From: Power & Schulkin's 'The Evolution of Obesity' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).

From the game 'Timeline', which seems to be a game originating in Scandinavia.

From the BBC television programme 'University Challenge' (Episode 26 (2013-14)) shown on 20th January 2014.

This is Parry-Jones from the Cardiff University team.

Another from 'Only Connect' BBC4 - 28th April 2014.

Sometimes Evolution Sucks - in that some dinosaurs got smaller as they evolved and became birds.

From 'Some Boffins with Jokes' BBC4 - 8th May 2014.

A play upon the Beatle's 'Abbey Road' album cover. (From Zazzle.)

A sequence from an animation used in the Channel 5 documentary 'Big Foot: The Missing Evidence' (from December 2014).

The chimp-like figure is somewhat over-used as well as being used incorrectly.

Note how the human figure changes with time.

My Pinterest board: Human Progress

(An extension of this site and repository for some images not found here.)