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

Jeff Davis jrd1415 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 00:01:26 UTC 2010


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."
>
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