Not such a tall tail.(News) From: Cape Times (South Africa) | Date: February 16, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Independent News & Media PLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

HUMAN babies born with tails? That may sound like a headline from the Weekly World News, but it was the respected New Scientist magazine that recently published a cover story about the phenomenon of evolution "running backward". Entertainment value aside, the article represents a new twist in the politically charged debate about evolution.

The author of The Ancestor Within, Michael Le Page, cited the babies with tails as a likely example of atavism, a phenomenon in which...