[DittoJed2]

That's where new species arise, but not what they are. By the dawn of the age of exploration, the human race had spread around the globe. The varying environments and the isolation of various subgroups from the rest of the gene pool had produced the beginnings of speciation processes that would eventually have gone to completion had we not re-discovered each other and re-connected all the gene pools. Now we're basically re-melding.
Okay, so you are trying to say that by the time, say, of Christopher Columbus, humans had already started evolving and given that sacred element "time" if we hadn't gotten back together we would have turned into something other than a human being?

[VadeRetro]

Okay, so you are trying to say that by the time, say, of Christopher Columbus, humans had already started evolving and given that sacred element "time" if we hadn't gotten back together we would have turned into something other than a human being?

Wrong. Again, your protests about the exposure you have had to non-cult treatments of evolution are instantly belied. You not only don't already know what I'm saying--something any evo already knew--but you can't read it correctly.

I said that humanity as a whole was on the way to fragmenting into some number of distinct-from-each-other species. We wouldn't all "have turned into something other than a human being." Without the reversal of events occasioned by remixing the gene pool, we would have continued to become more different from each other until, at some rather fuzzy stage, compatibility was lost forever.

I used the horse-donkey example to show the other side (the "after" picture) of speciation. Thus you see how speciation looks, "before" and "after."

Protesting that your posts show how much you know about evolution avails nothing if they show the opposite.