[ExI] Could youse guys help me find a Scientific American cartoon?

Jeff Davis jrd1415 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 00:22:23 UTC 2010


Wow! This is bizarre.  That's the cartoon all right, but it isn't.
The one I remember was smaller format, steeper stairs, only three
climbers, the modern human was climbing and looking forward and
oblivious, and the caption was Lemur to cave man or vice versa.

Now I'm really confused.

Jeff Davis

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Bill.
>
> Copyright's not an issue.  I'm not planning commercial distribution.
> Just want one for me,... and one for you.
>
> Thanks.
>
> How did you find it.  I thought sure I saw it in SciAm.  Was I wrong?
> Did I actually see it in the New Yorker, and misremembered?
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:53 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Jeff Davis  wrote:
>>> I'm trying to find a cartoon that appeared in Scientific American
>>> about ten years ago.  I thought it was in the Sept 2001 issue, but I
>>> have a copy of that issue, and I can't find it there.  I tried
>>> contacting SciAm, but they don't respond.
>>>
>>> The cartoon depicts a stairway proceeding from lower left to upper
>>> right  It is the evolutionary stairway.  Three "individuals" are
>>> climbing the stairs:  a lemur-like critter lower left, then a hairy,
>>> knuckle-dragging proto-human cave man, and finally in the upper right
>>> a "modern" human.  The caption has the lemur saying to the cave man,
>>> "I wondered when he'd notice there were more steps."  Suggesting of
>>> course that evolution is not through with the human "line",
>>> fundamental thinking for list members.
>>>
>>> I want to enlarge that cartoon and make a T-shirt out of it.  Person
>>> who finds it for me gets a free T-shirt.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Good news & bad news.
>>
>> I've found the cartoon, but it's copyrighted.
>>
>> Book:
>> Radical Evolution
>> The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What
>> It Means to Be Human
>> By    Joel Garreau
>>
>> Quote:
>> Joel Garreau: At the beginning of "Radical Evolution," there is a New
>> Yorker cartoon I bought the rights to. It shows a staircase. on the
>> first step is a little monkey. on the next, a bigger one, on the next,
>> a cro magnon, and on the next, a guy in a suit. the caption has the
>> cro-magnon saying to the suit:
>> "i was wondering when you'd notice there's lots more steps."
>>
>> ----------------------------
>>
>>
>> BillK
>>
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