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Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

Last updated: May 31, 2025 7:40 am
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Recent studies conducted on tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have yielded surprising results. Despite the prevailing belief that species evolve in response to changing environmental conditions, the fossils show no clear evidence of such adaptation during periods of temperature fluctuations.

According to Donald Prothero from California State Polytechnic University, the fossil record from La Brea indicates that many species have remained static over millions of years, even in the face of significant climate change. This challenges the common notion that evolution always leads to observable changes in response to environmental shifts.

While rapid evolution has been observed in various living organisms, the fossil evidence from La Brea suggests that this rapid adaptation may not necessarily result in long-term evolutionary changes. Prothero’s research on fossils of birds and mammals from the tar pits reveals a lack of significant evolution around 20,000 years ago, despite the cooling and subsequent warming of the climate during that period.

Prothero’s findings have sparked discussions among biologists, with some suggesting that the large range of certain animals at La Brea may have mitigated the need for local evolutionary changes. However, even smaller birds examined in the study did not display expected adaptations to climate shifts.

While the reasons for the lack of expected evolutionary changes remain unclear, experts like Andrew Hendry from McGill University emphasize that the fossil record provides only intermittent snapshots of evolutionary processes. The complexity of contemporary evolution and the rarity of large-scale shifts in adaptive traits may contribute to the absence of observable changes in the fossil record.

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Overall, the research at La Brea challenges traditional views on evolutionary responses to climate change and highlights the need for further investigation into the mechanisms driving evolutionary stasis in certain species.

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