Dan Brazelton

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is the natural world, and there is man. Butt man also belongs to the natural world, and if he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptive will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us. Mark Kurlansky, “Cod” 1997