Humans the Michael Ignatieff of Biology ?

Are humans 'just visiting' planet Earth ?

Just a parasite-predator 'taker' feeding off the hard work of humble autotrophic producers ?

Because the locks change faster than the keys : Darwin's loss is Dawson's gain

Charles Darwin had to seriously bent and twist the scientific evidence that lay before him to satisfy his twin personal concerns before he could publish his famous theory.

He wanted to both claim that Evolution indeed happened (boo-woo! said his fellow well-to-do Victorians) but that fortunately it happened extremely slowly (hooray!)

Joshua Lederberg "straightens" out 1950s bacteria - rescuing them from Henry Dawson's necrophilia label !

Joshua Lederberg loved to say how in the late 1940s and early 1950s, everybody (but him) thought that bacteria were asexual plants.

He soon straightened them and the bacteria out : he demonstrated that (once in about a billion go-a-rounds in a few strains of) bacteria have normal man-on-top sex just like animals and humans.