I thought the article was pretty good on that front. The passive voice is consistently used throughout ("have become hypermutators", "picked up early mutation

I thought the article was pretty good on that front. The passive voice is consistently used throughout ("have become hypermutators", "picked up early mutations in") and so on. The last paragraph explicitly calls out the stochastic nature of mutations and the role of selective pressures. The only part struck me as even vaguely "volitional" is "they are each finding their own path toward the same goal of optimal fitness" , and even that is a far cry from "Giraffes evolved long necks so they could eat leaves at the tops of trees".