Thanks, man. Now I have some good resources to refer to when people doubt speciation or macroevolution.

Although this doesn't prove that all species came about through mutation and natural selection only, it does give examples of this happening. I didn't know it happened in plants.

And thanks for setting the record straight on what people believe regarding our common ancestor with neanderthals. Offhand, I thought it was a mere 50k years :P Are there any hominids that split from us more recently? Like 50k?