WILL THE LAST DARWINIST PLEASE SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS:

On Earth, Evolution Booms in Bursts (AFP, 12/23/08)

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, goes against the common hypothesis that life slowly evolved from a single-celled organism to complex multi-celled organisms.

"We were surprised to observe that nearly all of the increase in size occurred in two distinct time-intervals," said Michal Kowalewski, a co-author of the study and professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech.