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The article focuses on the complexity of evolution in nature. Terry Deacon, a well regarded professor of biological anthropology and linguistics at the University of California in Berkeley, California, infers that complexity is not always a gift to the fit, but rather more often to the lazy or the lucky. It discusses the natural selection which was first identified by Charles Darwin in "On the Origin of Species." Information regarding Deacon's study about relaxed selection is also discussed.

This article reports that SETI@HOME, the software that commandeers home computers' idle time to sift telescope data for signs of extraterrestrial life, will soon have a another rival. Darwin Home aims to recreate the evolution of life on Earth by evolving computer creatures. It will be run by Biota.org, a California-based non-profit organisation devoted to biological inspiration in technology. For instance, researchers generated virtual fish and selected those that swim best. Such technological evolution could also generate efficient software for pattern recognition, such as identifying faces, and that is one aim of Darwin Home.

Highlights the evolutionary lines of dogs reported by Carlos Vila and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles in `Science.' Sequencing of DNA from dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals; Variability in mitochondrial DNA of dogs suggesting long evolution.