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Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

Evolution is a constant state. You evolve and become comfortable in situations in which you might have felt alien in the past.

Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

I'm attracted to the past.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.