[Dimensio]

This is news?

[Cleburne]

Does it hold any portents for puncuated equilibrium? It wouldn't sound that this bit of evidence is a good boding for the late Mr. Gould's idea- if formation of species is slow, imagine the massive leap it would take for a genus or family!

[Junior]

This is news?

Dr. Clegg said: "The result is exciting because this is the first time the theory has been tested using natural populations. Previous tests have used artificially introduced ones, which don't tell you much about how real biodiversity evolves.

Now the anti-Es cannot claim that the theory has never been tested.

[gore3000]

This is news?

Not really. It's a pretty lame excuse for an article, but hey, the money from taxpayers of four countries paid for this "research" so they had to come up with some way of justifying the expense.