Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was a British artist, novelist and translator. His most notable works are the utopian satirical Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). Butler’s showed interest in Darwin’s theories of biological evolution and in 1863, four years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, he published a letter in a New Zealand newspaper called Darwin among the Machines. In this letter he compares human evolution to machine evolution, arguing that machines would eventually replace man in the supremacy of the earth.