Did Darwin End Werewolf Myths?

In July 2009, at a meeting of British Society for the History of Science, Brian Regal is to outline a new theory about the demise of belief in werewolves. A rough summary is quoted in USA Today, but he blames Darwin for discovering evolution: “The spread of the idea of evolution helped kill off the werewolf because a canid-human hybrid makes no sense from an evolutionary point of view.” It will be interesting to see if this is accepted by folklorists (and cultural historians).