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STILT FLY

Age: 45 million years

Period: Eocene

Location: Baltic States, Jantarny, Russia

. . . There seems to have been almost no change in any part we can compare between the living organism and
its fossilized progenitors of the remote geological past. Living fossils embody the theme of evolutionary sta-

bility to an extreme degree. . . We have not completely solved the riddle of living to an extreme degree. . .
(Niles Eldredge, Fossils, 1991, pp. 101, 108.)

These are the words of Niles Eldredge, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural

History and an advocate of punctuated equilibrium. He posited this thesis in the face of the desperate
situation of the gradual evolution theory developed by Darwin's leadership. Eldredge manifests the
fact that 45-million-year-old fossils like the stilt fly pictured here place evolutionists in a deadlock.

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