Most of us picture evolution like a classic museum exhibit—old dusty bones, cavemen, and that familiar little line of monkeys gradually turning into humans. It feels like something that wrapped up millions of years ago, leaving us behind as the final, finished masterpiece.
Because we don't live for millions of years, it's easy to look at nature as a static backdrop. We tend to think species are fixed in place, like characters in a photograph rather than actors in an ongoing play.
Turns out, nature never closed the book on the process. Evolution is totally happening right now, all around us, and it is way faster and weirder than most of us ever real...