Has anybody ever observed the birth of a
new species?
If Darwin’s book was called “On the origin of
species,” how come we have not observed the
birth of a single new species? Again, this claim
is simply not true. Biologists have been able to
recreate in the laboratory species of plants
which were hypothesized to have originated by
natural hybridization. Also, there are several
observations published of direct speciation
events observed in nature, of both animals and
plants.
(text by Dr. Massimo Pigliucci,
University of Tennessee)