A child is, at times, scared of the moon falling upon him and tries to take preventive action

Scientists like Newton could not see it in their times due to lack of knowledge about the structure of matter. He had no clue  about the six Quarks. The .made have simplified it

Unfortunately we confine our  learning to the history of mankind. If such controls were possible, there would be no isotopes. There would be no mavericks. The presence of amvericks and centrifugal forces gives us  avery dynamic, Every planet would either have a circular motion or it would escape from the sun's gravity at speeds in excess of the escape velocity. 

But that does not happen. A child is, at times, scared of the moon falling upon him and tries to take preventive action. It happens more when one is unwell. I experienced something similar as a kind when I had high fever.

Even the  email below beautifully states that while awesome change is wrought outside, the evolutionary processes still act at biological clock speeds

Therefore, while from the point of view of the Homosapiens witnessing the present century, identification shall be a revolutionary deed, history will see it as a small event.  Opposition to it may not find even a passing mention, even though it is desirable to have it.

If identification was not an natural need of all matter-energy-knowledge systems, animals would not resort to it.