An evolutionary biologist at Washington State University says he often encounters people who are surprised to learn what he does. They have the impression there's only a handful of scientists in the country who manage to scrape together a few bits of information in support of Darwin's theory.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Scientific journals publish reams of new data every year about how evolution works. The Palouse alone is home to 80 to 100 biologists exploring the patterns of evolution and the processes that drive it.

And that number is deceptively low. In a way, every biologist is an evolutionary biologist. Carol Anelli, an entomologist who also studies the history of evolutionary thought, says few people realize the importance of evolution in their everyday lives, that the theory of evolution underlies all of modern biology and medicine. -Source: http://researchnews.wsu.edu