 …if a certain doctrine is constantly being spoken of favorably by the majority, endorsed by top authorities in their books and taught in classes, then a belief is gradually built up in one’s mind, eventually becoming the guiding principle and the basis of value judgment. At any rate, this was the time when the panselectionist or “neo-Darwinian” position was most secure in the history of biology: the heyday of the traditional “synthetic theory” of evolution. (1983: 22)