Cristina Bendek
Dr. Dino J. Martins, a Kenyan entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is a Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University. Formerly the Academic Field Director for the Turkana Basin Institute Field School. He holds a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2011).
Colombia
There is the tapeworm, which can grow one hundred and twenty feet within the gut of a whale. The tsetse fly, a notorious vector of disease whose needle-like mouth can pierce even crocodile skin. And the most universal symbol of parasitic behaviour: the much-mythologised leech. Long villainised, yet vital to every ecosystem on Earth, these parasitic creatures have driven evolution, shaped civilisations, and altered the course of human history. And we have almost entirely ignored them