Isn't nature wonderful in how it allows creatures to adapt to their surroundings?
Well, yeah, unless you're the creature who ends up host to a parasite or something else that wrecks your life.
Examples abound, and WIRED science writer Matt Simon serves them up in gruesome detail in his book The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution’s Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life’s Biggest Problems.Skip breakfast and listen to this re-airing of an interview from last year.
