What sort of evolutionary biology? That might be the key. For you see, evolution isn't quite the darling of the political Left as one might think; the Left is really more like "special creationists", who believe that evolution is "for thee, not me", that it stopped somewhere about the time human-line apes stood up on two legs, or lit a fire, or some other bullshit, and still think it takes "millyuns of yeers" to happen (not to mention a lot of other out-of-date but politically useful and hubristically preening "one race" human supremacist nonsense.)

He probably said something uncomfy to the human worshipers. Maybe used the word "ape" in the "wrong" place. Because gods forbid the hairless ape be recognized as one. (Though most races of human actually have as much body hair as any other chimp, it's just that the hair is much shorter and thinner and harder to notice.)

What sort of evolutionary biology? That might be the key. For you see, evolution isn't quite the darling of the political Left as one might think; the Left is really more like "special creationists", who believe that evolution is "for thee, not me", that it stopped somewhere about the time human-line apes stood up on two legs, or lit a fire, or some other bullshit, and still think it takes "millyuns of yeers" to happen (not to mention a lot of other out-of-date but politically useful and hubristically preening "one race" human supremacist nonsense.)

He probably said something uncomfy to the human worshipers. Maybe used the word "ape" in the "wrong" place. Because gods forbid the hairless ape be recognized as one.

What sort of evolutionary biology? That might be the key. For you see, evolution isn't quite the darling of the political Left as one might think; the Left is really more like "special creationists", who believe that evolution is "for thee, not me", that it stopped somewhere about the time human-line apes stood up on two legs, or lit a fire, or some other bullshit, and still think it takes "millyuns of yeers" to happen (not to mention a lot of other out-of-date but politically useful and hubristically preening "one race" human supremacist nonsense.)