section_path: Impact/In fiction
section_name: In fiction
paragraph_text: In fiction
  
  Darwinian evolution by natural selection is pervasive in literature, whether taken optimistically in terms of how humanity may evolve towards perfection, or pessimistically in terms of the dire consequences of the interaction of human nature and the struggle for survival. Among major responses is Samuel Butler 's 1872 pessimistic Erewhon ("nowhere", written mostly backwards). In 1893 H. G. Wells imagined " The Man of the Year Million ", transformed by natural selection into a being with a huge head and eyes, and shrunken body.