[mikeus_maximus]

So now they're devolving into a lower lifeform?

We are DEVO. D-E-V-O.

(But seriously, this just shows variation about the genetic mean, which is all that's ever been observed.)

[45Auto]

I've always thought of the left wing fringe as devolved; the RAT party seems to be devolving - its the only rational explanation for the elevation of Nancy Pelosi....

[evets]

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[OB1kNOb]

We are DEVO. D-E-V-O.

Did someone call?

Whip it. Whip it good!

[DBrow]

Strictly speaking, Darwin did not write about a direction to evolution (better and better, for instance) but spoke only of change.

If I remember correctly it was Darwin who described the now-extinct Irish Elk, who through continued selection wound up with antlers so huge the animal could not navigate a forest.

So in Darwinian theory, if a species moved all the way to a single-cell blob from a complex finch, that would not be de-evolution, just evolution from one state to another.