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The term used to describe the fact that most species exhibit limited change during their tenure on earth.
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Period during which little or no evolutionary change takes place within a lineage or groups of lineages.
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(Paleoanthropology) The observation that specimens don't seem to change over time.
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A period in which no evolutionary change takes place in the development of a species.
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'Standing still'; long episodes of apparently no morphological change in a species lineage.
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A period of little or no discernible change in a lineage.
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period during which litlle or no evolutionary change takes place within a lineage or groups of lineage
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