[houeto]

spe·ci·a·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spsh-shn, -s-)

n.

The evolutionary formation of new biological species, usually by the division of a single species into two or more genetically distinct ones.

The question truly is, why can't we see this happening right now?

When Darwin discovered evolution, did evolution get upset and decide to stop in it's tracks?

[Mamzelle]

Time, time. Always the fulness to time covers these nagging little questions, when the theory starts sounding ragged. Are there fewer species every day? Yes. Is the long-term pronosis, based on what we can see and document, for ever more extinctions? Yes. Is there new speciation? None that would appeal to common sense, though there is much promised and indicated.

That life is so marvellously related to all other life is not something to be amazed at, for this priesthood--life a club to beat over the heads of the Stubbornly Superstitious.

[Dimensio]

The question truly is, why can't we see this happening right now?

Who said that we can't?

[Ichneumon]

The question truly is, why can't we see this happening right now?

We can.

When Darwin discovered evolution, did evolution get upset and decide to stop in it's tracks?

No, but a lot of folks decided to start asking some really lame questions...

[shubi]

There are hundreds of observed examples of speciation.