n. Although we are only able to take an atomic-level glimpse at a process which may take a thousand years to complete, we are, in fact, observing one of God's own true laws--that of evolution.
Carson explains the phenomenon of giant, super-insects as an adaption to increasingly toxic levels of DDT spraying. In effect, man is custom-designing superbugs through an "unnatural" ("unfair") intervention into the evolutionary process. Carson explains:
The whole process of spraying seems caught up in an endless spiral. SInce DDT was released for civilian use, a process of escalation has been going on in which even more toxic materials must be found. This has happened because insects, in a triumphant vindication of Darwin's principle of survival of the fittest, have evolved super-races immune to the particular insecticide used, hence a deadlier one has always to be developed--and then a deadlier one than that." (18)
Considering Gould's and Carson's essays together, one realizes that man will only be a key player in the evolution
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