Recently there has been some celebration from the Darwinian community regarding a discovery of a fossil¹ that allegedly links terrestrial animals to their future aquatic relatives: the ichthyosaurs.

Are we dumber than our grandparents?

Social psychologists are tracking IQ scores and noticed a decline in the last decade after a steady rise since the 1950s. Some wonder if the recent downturn reflects genes that have been eroding all along. Are we evolving stupidity?

Certain types of fungi can be parasitic to both plants and animals. Two new studies show that this has developed, in part, by a loss of genetic information—not a gain as predicted by evolution.^1,2