I read someone call Austen the Drosophila melanogaster of evolutionary psychology. They seem to study her work like theologists study bibles. The fruit fly comp

I read someone call Austen the Drosophila melanogaster of evolutionary psychology. They seem to study her work like theologists study bibles. The fruit fly comparison makes it sound like they are studying a specimen. But my theory is that they recognize her as a colleague who happened to write in a different genre.