Jeff Morris wrote:
OK, another set of examples. All of the plant and animal species that we now
called "domesticated" are quite different from their wild predecessors. All of
these new species "evolved," largely as an accident of interaction with human
culture, in a time span of less then 10,000 years. Actually, many occurred in
less than 1000 years - Wheat for instance (IIRC) evolved quickly because several
naturally occurring mutations were very compatible with human cultivation.

Or, in the case of the Pekinese dog, we have definitely influenced
evolution to produce a creature that Nature would never could have, for
reasons that nobody can explain.

DSK