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Originally Posted by dyna mo
just re-quoting the study's lead scientist's comment I included in my OP
“Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.”
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To further quote...
“The rule of biology is not to evolve unless the physical or biological environment changes, which is consistent with Darwin,” said Schopf, who also is director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life. The environment in which these microorganisms live has remained essentially unchanged for 3 billion years, he said.
“These microorganisms are well-adapted to their simple, very stable physical and biological environment,” he said. “If they were in an environment that did not change but they nevertheless evolved, that would have shown that our understanding of Darwinian evolution was seriously flawed.”
ie their environment didn't change, so there was no stimulus to inspire any need to evolve.