Yep. That's the thing with evolution, it's all about the ability to adapt. Caveat being that you never know what adaptation you'll need until the shock arrive

Yep. That's the thing with evolution, it's all about the ability to adapt. Caveat being that you never know what adaptation you'll need until the shock arrives, and at that point it's too late. At that point, you either have the ability to adapt, or you don't. Nature doesn't care if you're the smartest, the strongest, the healthiest, the most whatever. Doesn't matter to her. Can you adapt to this different environment or not? That's all that matters. Your average physically fit female would have been dead after less than 15 minutes in the water after Titanic went down. Lower body fat percentage, etc etc etc. At the same time, the portly, out of shape, and perpetually drunk chief baker lived in the water for over 8 hours. Now that's not an example of evolution or anything, but it does illustrate the value of adaptability when shock radical change occurs. The chief baker's body was able to adapt to a radical change in environment, everyone else' was not.