Viruses and disease – call it the culling of the herd – are part of the cycle of life. It happens in all living things – from forest fires (that enable new growth to come in), to animal extinctions, animal evolution, and the return of animal species.

Could the coronavirus be Malthusian in nature? Too much population, too few resources, nature reduces population to fit the available resource supply?

Should ecologists and anthropologists be welcoming the advent of the coronavirus, as it represents nature and the natural ebb and flow of life on earth?

Topics: ecology, nature, darwin, Malthus, coronavirus