History Main / ParodyOfEvolution

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* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' depicts this in [[spoiler:Sunken Scroll #10, with a squid gradually evolving into an Inkling, after [[AfterTheEnd humanity was washed away 12,000 years prior to the game]].]]

The easiest way to do this (Type 1) is to take [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Progress Rudolph Zallinger's illustration: March of Progress]] and draw something else over it. [[StockParody Instant Parody!]]

The other way to do it (Type 2) is a montage of creatures morphing into each other. This type is more common in animation.

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* Seen in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', with Sid the Sloth as the apex.
* The movie poster for ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' shows the cast of the original movie in order from least to most erect coming face to face with the fully upright Bettermans.

* One of the posters for ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', [[http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/File:544991-rise_of_the_planet_of_the_apes_poster_05.jpg "Evolution Becomes Revolution,"]] which has the ''homo sapiens'' held on a leash by a brutish gun-toting ape.

* The cover of ''Film/DumbAndDumber''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpivIYJFjd4 introduction to the Dilbert cartoon]] shows a full version, from microscopic life, to proto-dinosaur walking out of the water, ending in Dilbert himself. All of which are wearing his trademark glasses.

* The WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}} television [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpivIYJFjd4 intro.]]

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** Mentioned in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' where the picture is compared to someone getting out of bed in the morning. The wizards who are looking at the picture state that the ape/human's main achievement is getting from one side of the page to the other without showing any genitalia.

* [[http://dotchan.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d16edss The Descent of Nintendo.]]

* A FunTShirt (worn by one of the sign-holders in Music/MitchBenn's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q2iZuU5WM Proud of the BBC]]" video - appropriately enough the one holding the sign for ''TheAscentOfMan'') has the line of protohumans [[AbbeyRoadCrossing on the Abbey Road zebra crossing]].

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* In [[{{Theatre/Tsukiuta}} Kurenai Enishi]], one of the HarpoDoesSomethingFunny moments happens when the embers of Procella have been captured by ninja, and as they're lined up in the back of the stage, about to be taken into the dungeon... well, it's these dorks, so they can't pass up the opportunity to do silly poses. In one performance, they did these poses.

* In ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'', Phil Blumburtt presents a series of still images of the evolution of sapient ducks as a theory of Howard's origin; [[YouFailBiologyForever the first image is an egg]].

* Used very, very strangely in ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroachesTheMovie''. In the intro, Oggy evolves from a microbe into a cat. The problem? He evolved straight from [[YouFailBiologyForever a fish into a cat]]. However, the earlier segments are somewhat more accurate, which he evolved into a ''[[FridgeBrilliance Pikaia]]'' [[ShownTheirWork (?) and then an early fish]].

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' did this, going from monkey to hunched ape-man to neanderthal to seven-foot-tall muscular [[LanternJawOfJustice giant-jawed]] shaved ComicBook/{{Rahan}}-type man to short wimpy BobFromAccounting-looking guy [[YouSuck waiting at the bus stop.]]

* An installment of Paul Kirchner's surreal comic strip The Bus shows a series of creatures, from monkey to caveman, boarding a bus. The caveman stops to politely allow the main character (a balding office-worker type) to board before him.

* Guinness's "Noitulove" (aka "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4sdgvy-pk Rhythm of Life]]") commercial, as the name suggests, shows backward evolution.