 From October 16th to 19th of 1980, a conference on the subject of macroevolution was held at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Shortly thereafter—in the November 21, 1980 issue of Science—an exciting report on some events of the conference was published (Lewin 1980). The report was entitled “Evolutionary Theory under Fire”, and it prompted a cascade of responses in the Letters section of Science—an exchange of scientific correspondence that continued for almost two decades. Whatever the motives behind the headlining of the report, it is empirically evident that the chosen title was inflammatory.