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Comment author: gjm 29 February 2016 02:34:17PM 2 points [-]

micro-evolution. They do not extrapolate to new tissues and proteins that define different species.

You claimed that evolution in humans seems to have stopped. Kaj_Sotala gave you evidence that it hasn't. Of course the examples he gave were of "micro-evolution"; what else would you expect when the question is about what's happened in recent evolution, within a particular species?