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Cephalotes Ant

Period: Miocene
Age: 20 million years

Region: Dominican Republic

What we see when we examine natural history is not that life forms “evolve into different ana-
tomical structures,” but that they remain unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. This
permanence in the fossil record is referred to as “stasis” by scientists. Living fossils and living
things that have survived to the present day, but have left behind fossil remains from different
periods of prehistory, are concrete evidence of the stasis in the fossil record. And this stasis in
the fossil record showed there was never any process of gradual evolution.

This fossilized and literally armored ant is identical to those that lived 20 million years ago. The
ant has never undergone any change in its physical structure, and never evolved.

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