Axel Meyer works in evolutionary developmental biology, a field that has 
generated critical perpectives on received ideas, not excluding the 
centrality of natural selection as an evolutionary mechanism. These 
challenges have become increasingly prominent at the biennial meetings of 
the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of 
Biology, where they have engaged the attention of many historians and 
philosophers. 

Meyer, on the other hand, is well-known in the field as a defender of the 
traditional ("Modern Synthesis") perspective. He was an unlikely choice to 
review Feyerabend's book, but the editors of PLoS Biology, having Kidd's 
appreciative essay in hand with little justification for killing it, probably 
enlisted Meyer for "balance," to placate their mostly mainstream 
contributor pool and readership.