Visualization is of enormous importance in the propaganda of Darwinism.
We need only consider Darwin's tree. Visually the connections from primitive organisms to more complicated ones is immediately obvious as the connection of a tree limb to its trunk. Whether the connections actually exist is irrelevant, the image remains.
And that tree-like propaganda device is repeated over and over again with everything from purported human skulls to the ancestors of the modern horse without questioning whether there is anything between the tips of the limbs and the trunk besides the imagination of the illustrator.
“....some [artists] wrongly took it [evolution] as justification to elevate whites over other races,..”
But that is precisely what Darwinism teaches, that the dark skinned, ape-like ancestors of modern man came out of Africa and evolved into the lighter skinned races,(think Englishmen of the 19th century).
And the propaganda by poster art goes on: Lucy, peppered moths, animal embryos, feathered dinosaurs, auto insurance “cavemen”, etc.
Accurate? Who cares? What matter is the narrative.
There may be something to this.
Yesterday I was in a Swiss chocolate store, buying up some bunnies when I noticed a chocolate monkey head that looked exactly like a face that's been on the cover of Time Magazine a zillion times.
This was not a racist cartoon depiction like the media cartoons depicting George W. as a simian.
The mold for this Monkey face was classical, probably over a hundred years old.
Maybe the movie “Planet of The Apes” was spot on.