The last decade has seen and rightly so a boom of Darwiniana, culminating in 1991, in a fascinating new biography by A. Desmond and J. Moore.' Indeed, "spicing up" one's writing with references to Charles Darwin seems one sure way for biologists to enliven an otherwise dull prose. The author brought Charles Darwin into this essay on the Peruvian anchoveta, although Charles Darwin has very much ignored this fish.