Darwin's wholistic conception of evolutionary continuities is never mentioned in twentieth-century Western scientific or philosophic circles. It has never been openly challenged. It has never been methodically rebutted. It has simply been ignored. By twentieth-century standards, only the Origin of Species and the second half of The Descent - Selection in Relation to Sex - count as evolutionary theory. The rest is silence ... the pressing question then is, why is there a selective reading of Darwin? Since never explictly discredited, why is his organic and evolutionary wholism not taken seriously?