We received this e-mail in response to last month s feature article in which we wondered how one could be both an evolutionist and an environmentalist because environmental pressure supposedly accelerates evolution. This is utterly incorrect. We re glad you asked.
Pollution acts to decrease the number of available ecological niches, thus reducing biodiversity.
Funny he should ask about our definition of superior . That is the subject of an essay we are planning to run in a month or two. So, we will not address that issue right now. We put his last sentence in red because that is the crux of the problem. If it is true, then the asteroid that supposedly caused the extinction of the dinosaurs must have decreased the number of ecological niches.