Humans tend to overestimate their ability to outsmart natural evolutionary processes, leading to negative consequences when interfering with natural systems.

“I think that we are smart and because we have had some small victories in medicine and nutrition and health I mean we've made scanning electron microscopes and we've understood quarks I think that we've gotten a little too prideful and we imagine that as humans we can outsmart natural the natural world that we can outsmart nature and that may sound whoo but I think it's pretty damn difficult to outsmart 3 million years of natural history and evolution and any time we try to do that I get worried”