he/him | I was born in Mexico City and grew up in Caracas, NYC and Singapore. Microbes are my tools and I use them to understand the world around us. I'm in the Natural selection imitates a highly competitive economy – then everybody dies
We typically expect natural selection to improve the condition of a species, leading to their long-term survival; however, 99.9 percent of all species on Earth are now extinct. It seems that natural selection might be pretty good at helping us make it through today, but pretty awful at preparing us for tomorrow.