  We measure the redshift-dependent luminosity function and the comoving radial
density of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 1 (SDSS DR1).
Both measurements indicate that the apparent number density of bright galaxies
increases by a factor ~3 as redshift increases from z=0 to z=0.3. This result
is robust to the assumed cosmology, to the details of the K-correction and to
direction on the sky. These observations are most naturally explained by
significant evolution in the luminosity and/or number density of galaxies at
redshifts z < 0.3. Such evolution is also consistent with the steep
number-magnitude counts seen in the APM Galaxy Survey, without the need to
invoke a local underdensity in the galaxy distribution distribution or
magnitude scale errors.
