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ReFrederator is all about Baboons, Chimpanzees, Gorillas and such during our Favorite Ape-isode Week. Today Felix the Cat tackles the weighty subject of evolution in a film that predates the Scopes Monkey Trial by a year, “Felix Doubles for Darwin.”

Do we share a common ancestry with the apes? Well, since this is a 1920’s cartoon, the answer is self-evident: judging by how critters are drawn, EVERYTHING is pretty much related. Cats, dogs, mice, monkeys, bugs and fish all look a lot alike to me — inky blots with white muzzles and black jellybean noses. Of course, judging by how the Pat Sullivan Studio thinks the Trans-Atlantic Cable works, I’m not sure I’d take their word on things scientific.

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Dave Kirwan