Evolution is straight up bad ass...Such a cool field of study.
That's always been how I've seen it, too.
Earlier I gave the example of how Tiktaalik was found. That is so bad ass... Evolution helped them find where geographically, how deep to dig, and what specifically they should find. After a decade of search; they eventually found almost exactly what they were looking for.
I read the book about this soon after its discovery, Your Inner Fish, by the man who found it .