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Being something of a hot topic, [[wikipedia:Evolution|evolution]] has been a popular target for satire and parody.
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Considering what we now know of [[Big Words|Ardipithecus ramidus]], this trope is an example of [[Science Marches On]].
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== March of Progress Parodies ==
* One of the images shown when you complete the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' single-player mode with [[Donkey Kong]] is four DKs and one [[Metroid|Samus]] arranged like this.
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* The two "Myth Evolution" episodes of [[MythBusters]] used a cartoon of this on the initial blueprint shot.
* A common parody has the last man sitting down at a computer, hunched over his keyboard. Variations also include being fatter and slightly smaller, but carrying a coke can instead of a spear.
* As shown in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120610175434/http://www.lab-initio.com/screen_res/nz003.jpg this] ''Lab Initio''.
* The title card of an episode of ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' has this, with the last person as Mr. Crocker.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121007000101/http://dotchan.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d16edss The Descent of Nintendo].
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* A caricature parodying evolution in the different parts of the world, depicts Evolution in Korea using the original sequence, but including a [[StarCraft|Hydralisk]] at the end.
** The same is done for Japan, but the Hydralisk is replaced with a [[Gundam]]
* [
* [http://www.portallos.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/toki.jpg This picture] about the HD remake of arcade classic ''Toki''.
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* The [[Supertramp]] album cover for ''Brother Where You Bound'' is a multi-colored straight example, but the inside artwork shows an [[Abbey Road Crossing]] pose by the members of the band, all not too dissimilar to how the "man" figure is walking.
* The the album [[wikipedia:The Evolution of Robin Thicke|The Evolution of Robin Thicke]] features this in both its cover and name.
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* Mentioned in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s 'Science of the Discworld' 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.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s #14 [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_388_27-science-lessons-as-taught-by-famous-video-games/ Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games] alludes to "March" with game sprites.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has a (disputed [[In-Universe]]) picture of [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-31 Enireth evolution].
* Naolito's "[http://www.naolito.com/collections/zelda/products/galactic-evolution?variant=1049874341 Galactic Evolution]{{Dead link}}" T-shirt depicts a potted seedling, a potted plant, [[Guardians of the Galaxy|Groot]], and [[ Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]].
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== Morphing Montage ==
=== Advertising ===
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY did it] on the season 18 episode "Homerazzi" <ref>The one where Homer becomes a paparazzo after one of the staged family pictures Marge takes has Duffman cheating on his gay lover with Boobarella</ref> parodies this (showing Homer as a single-celled organism and progressing through many pre-historic and historic eras until he enters the present and comes home to Marge, who asks him, "What took you so long?" <ref>On at least one version, the line was replaced with, "Did you bring home any milk?"</ref>) in what is now considered the longest (and, in some viewers' eyes, the most epic) [[Couch Gag]] to date.▼
*
=== Comic Books ===
* ''[[Garfield]]: His Nine Lives'' used this in the first chapter.
* The [[Music Video]] for Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now".▼
* In ''[[Howard the Duck (comics)|Howard the Duck]]'', Phil Blumburtt presents a series of still images of the evolution of sapient ducks as a theory of Howard's origin; [[You Fail Biology Forever|the first image is an egg]].
=== Music ===
* An animation short mixed the two, showing primates evolving into men in the exact position as the March of Progress image, only to revert to a hunched-over Three-point Football stance.▼
▲* The [[Music Video]] for Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now".
* One version of [http://tasvideos.org/879M.html Humans] had an intro scene that animated evolution among the various pre-human periods. The penultimate was a large creature wearing sneakers, a shirt, and was tall. This form then morphs into a human.▼
=== Video Games ===
* Seen in credit roll for ''[[Warcraft]] 3''.
* One of the glitched creatures you can catch in the original ''[[Pokémon]]'' will result in a [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/BreakingBlue/Update%2003/index.html series of impossible
▲* One version of [http://tasvideos.org/879M.html Humans] had an intro scene that animated evolution among the various pre-human periods. The penultimate was a large creature wearing sneakers, a shirt, and was tall. This form then morphs into a human.
=== Western Animation ===
▲* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY did it] on the season 18 episode "Homerazzi" <ref>The one where Homer becomes a paparazzo after one of the staged family pictures Marge takes has Duffman cheating on his gay lover with Boobarella</ref> parodies this (showing Homer as a single-celled organism and progressing through many pre-historic and historic eras until he enters the present and comes home to Marge, who asks him, "What took you so long?" <ref>On at least one version, the line was replaced with, "Did you bring home any milk?"</ref>) in what is now{{when}} considered the longest (and, in some viewers' eyes, the most epic) [[Couch Gag]] to date.
* The [[Dilbert]] television [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpivIYJFjd4 intro.]
▲* An animation short mixed the two, showing primates evolving into men in the exact position as the March of Progress image, only to revert to a hunched-over Three-point Football stance.
* The opening credits of ''[[Despicable Me|The Minions]]'' shows the minions evolving from single-celled organisms which followed larger and stronger single-celled organisms all the way to becoming sapients who followed whatever or whoever seemed like the [[Bigger Bad]] in any given situation.
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