Wells, in his newly published book on evolutionary icons,1 systematically evaluated some of the more common icons that are almost universally presented as proofs of evo- lution. These icons are present not only in high school and college biology, anthropology, and evolution texts, but also in graduate-level textbooks. These icons include the pep- pered moth, Haeckel’s ‘ontogeny-recapitulates-phylogeny’ ‘law’, Stanley Miller’s origin-of-life experiments, homol- ogy studies, and others. Wells shows that these evolutionary ‘proofs’, all of which have become classic illustrations of evolution, are, at best, misleading, and at worst, wrong. One evolutionary icon he did not cover, however, was the evolution of the giraffe’s neck.