  We consider a nonlinear damped hyperbolic equation in $\real^n$, $1 \le n \le
4$, depending on a positive parameter $\epsilon$. If we set $\epsilon=0$, this
equation reduces to the well-known Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piskunov equation. We
remark that, after a change of variables, this hyperbolic equation has the same
family of one-dimensional travelling waves as the KPP equation. Using various
energy functionals, we show that, if $\epsilon >0$, these fronts are locally
stable under perturbations in appropriate weighted Sobolev spaces. Moreover,
the decay rate in time of the perturbed solutions towards the front of minimal
speed $c=2$ is shown to be polynomial. In the one-dimensional case, if
$\epsilon < 1/4$, we can apply a Maximum Principle for hyperbolic equations and
prove a global stability result. We also prove that the decay rate of the
perturbated solutions towards the fronts is polynomial, for all $c > 2$.
