Devo was spawned in a potato factory in Akron, Ohio. They were formed by two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with some guy named Alan Myers. The name "Devo" came from B.H. Shadduck's 1925 creationist booklet Jocko-Homo Heavenbound, where Shadduck disproved Darwin's theory of evolution and gave evidence that the human race was instead de-volving into ape-men, or "Jocko Homos". Mark Mothersbaugh paid tribute to Shadduck by quoting a line from the booklet in Devo's song "Jocko Homo", wherein he sang "God made man, but he used the monkey to do it."