A MacArthur Fellow poses the question. Carl Safina, in an essay in the New York Times, says that by putting all the attention on the guy who discovered evolution, it’s allowed later advances – Gregor Mendel’s patterns of heredity, DNA, developmental biology, and genetic medicine – to get ignored by those who don’t support the theory of evolution. Safina claims Charles Darwin has unfairly become the talking point. The dude could’ve turned 200 this week, by the way. source