Charles Darwin as an orangutan

"A Venerable Orang-outang." That was the title of this cartoon poking fun at naturalist Charles Darwin, published in 1871 in the satirical magazine The Hornet. ("Orang-outang" was the old-time spelling of orangutan.) Darwin's book The Descent of Man was published that same year. People found his theories easy to make fun of, but Darwin had the last laugh.