The March of Progress

One thing that always puts my Google skillz to the test is when I'm trying to find out about something I don't know the title for, especially when it's an instrumental piece of music or an image. This morning, we were talking about evolution at work (for a marketing project I'm doing) and I wanted to look up that picture of apes, apemen and men walking in a straight line. What's it called? The Ascent of Man? The Descent of Man?

It's actually called March of Progress, and was commissioned by Time Life Books. According to Wikipedia, it was painted by "noted natural history painter and muralist Rudolph Zallinger."

It's a hard image to find on the Web, but if you Google "ascent of man," "descent of man," or "evolution," you're sure to see countless parodies of it, including a poorly researched anti-evolution screed from nutty Christian cartoon propagandist Jack Chick and the poster for Encino Man.