In The News Today

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/humans-evolving.html

"Look out, future, because here we come: scientists say the speed of human evolution increased rapidly during the last 40,000 years -- and it's only going to get faster.

"The findings, published today by a team of U.S. anthropologists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, overturn the theory that modern life's relative ease has slowed or even stopped human adaptation. Selective pressures are still at work; they just happen to be different than those faced by our distant ancestors."

In theory... Next thing these "scientists" will be telling us that the earth is getting warmer, or that the sun is the center of the solar systems or that blood letting doesn't really cure scurvy. Whatever...