Some examples of speciation occuring in nature include plants in the genera 
Spartina and Tragopogon. Plants are kind of cool in that new species can 
arise through polyploidy (instant speciation).


"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Halbert wrote:
>> I would be very interested in reading about this. When, where, who and 
>> how?
>
>
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16382-artificial-molecule-evolves-in-the-lab.html
>
> The number of species created in labs are too numerous to list. It takes 
> about three or four weeks to make a new species of fruit flies, IIRC, just 
> by taking a group and subjecting half two one set of environments and half 
> to the other.
>
> http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
>
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