Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, <i>Lumbricus badensis</i> (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) : Figure 9

]>Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, <i>Lumbricus badensis</i> (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) : Figure 9

Figure 9: Cartoon by E. L. Sambourne, published in the Punch in 1882 with the sentence “Man is but a worm”. This parody of Charles Darwin's concepts on the origin of humanity has been corroborated by recent molecular data on the phylogenetic relationships of annelids and vertebrates (adapted from [38]).