Re: Why no new species of man?

On Jul 10, 8:50 pm, oprah.cho...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

A few hundred thousand years ago,  the world population was very smal
yet we had several species of man. In the past 1000 years the world
population has grown orders of magnitude larger, yet how come no new
species have evolved?

 My understanding was evolution depends on population and time. The
greater the product of those two, the faster the evolution. So why are
we not seeing radically new species man emerge when more people are
born in one day ( ~4 million ) then lived in the world for milleniums
100,000 years ago.

DNA is old news. These days the cutting edge of evolution is
cultural - and the future lies with the new replicators. In cultural
evolution, developments are indeed happening very quickly.
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