Only if you assume that the chains moving towards humanity cannot go extinct. (you are assuming that any of the first paths that were going in the general direction of humanity did not go die out.)And you can 'keep those numbers'. It's called heredity.
1000 years should be enough to view a noticeable change, because evolution is gradual, we should be able to see a difference between these times. (We only have had less than 5 billion years to evolve from a single cell, (the single cell would most likely take an extremely long time to evolve (if it can)) there are enough species in between that unless evolution has come to basically a standstill, we should be able to view something)Humans certainly aren't evolving to any great degree. Galapogos finches, on the other hand... There are fewer large species than a thousand years ago. Large animals are selected against because humans tend to kill them. But regardless, 1000 years is too short a time period to see any significant effects. 30,000 years, maybe. The average species lifetime is something a lot longer than that.
The thing that bothers me most about evolution is that so many scientists accept it as proven (as we were arguing, you can always just say it takes longer then we can see because there is no way for you to show that macro-evolution has ever occured unless we see some evidence. Pretty shaky theory if you ask me.) just because it is an alternative (supposedly) to intelligent design. Also as Unne said in his quote before (he was arguing for the other side, but I can still use his quote) "extrapolation is dangerous". That is all the theory of evolution is, one great extrapolation, with a great deal of assumptions surrounding it as well. See this article about the evolutionary tree. http://www.icr.org/pubs/btg-b/btg-150b.htm
So far, I have only heard of color changes and appetite changes in those finches, but you can add other differences if you like.Humans certainly aren't evolving to any great degree. Galapogos finches, on the other hand... There are fewer large species than a thousand years ago.