More evidence surfacing that helps support my theory that evolution is a combination of cosmic ray mutation and intelligent repair mechanisms, culminating in new species. This from a recent issue of New Scientist, not available online.

"Nevertheless, it looks suspiciously as if the mitochondrial genome has evolved the ability to resist attack in some areas and succumb in others. I believe the same thing may be happening in nuclear DNA, although the mechanisms may be different. If genomes do focus mutations at hot spots and reduce them in areas where they are likely to threaten survival, then mutation is not random. What's more, it looks as though genomes that take control in this way are fitter than those that bend to the vagaries of random mutation."

"Death and Desctruction" by Tom Gilbert New Scientist, May 31 2003, pages 32-35