Creating new circumstances for natural selection

1) Viral diseases like Ebola and AIDS are both capable of wiping out large populations of people, but in terms of the evolutionary processes that we are studying, Ebola will not likely succeed in doing long-term major damage, but AIDS can. Why do you think these two diseases are different evolutionarily?  [OLIWENSTEIN of the reader is helpful – #2 in the reader].

2) How are Malthusian ideas of population related to GM crops talked about in the HSIN article (#3 in the reader)? Argue for or against GM crops as a way to confront the Malthusian dilemma.

3) We know that climate change is creating new circumstances for natural selection in an accelerated form. But is climate change such a bad thing?  Species come and go, the world won’t end.  What do you say to that? Agree or disagree.