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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil

• rolph 5y ago
  >>The minimal superficial changes to living fossils are mistakenly declared the absence of evolution, but they are examples of stabilizing selection, which is an evolutionary process—and perhaps the dominant process of morphological evolution.[4]<< if you want to talk about genetic modifications that is sequitorial however the framing of the statement involves anatomical structure, thus the confusions that have arisen over time.