Think of evolution as a rate… adaptation (to local conditions) over time. Whoever taught you that “evolution was mutation only” in the 1990’s shouldn’t have been teaching on the subject. Mutation is the root of it… good old random mutation without direction. From there you have some selection, which, with time, leads to evolution of new species. Mostly though, exoticdoc2 got it right, in the strip it’s metamorphosis, which is NOT evolution (but a product of…).
I came to the strip today and as I started reading I thought, “oh gad… not another one. Why can’t Bucky finally produce something ridiculously useful!” Excellent. Next, to take over the world.
Caufield needs a trimmed mustache and goatee and he’d pull off Steinbeck with his trusty traveling partner, Charley.