From Dummies.com, what evidence supports the theory of evolution? Swallows may be evolving to dodge traffic: Road-kill numbers of roadside-nesting cliff swallows have dropped as birds shorten their wings to become more agile. Clive Cookson reviews Creation: The Origin of Life/The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford. The evolution of a theory: Marek Kohn reviews Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin by Peter J Bowler. Ian Tattersall on remembering Stephen Jay Gould: The evolutionist taught anthropologists that human evolution was not a special case of anything. The director of evolution: Jennifer Ouellette on how Frances Arnold mutates DNA and breeds strange, new, and useful creatures. Laura Miller reviews Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet and How We Live by Marlene Zuk (and more). It's in the cards: Human evolution influences gamblers' decisions, study shows.
