> If it was some creature that's evolving we surely stopped it in its track. Not quite how evolution works in that (1) organisms are never in a state of evolvi

> If it was some creature that's evolving we surely stopped it in its track. Not quite how evolution works in that (1) organisms are never in a state of evolving (or not evolving), and (2) evolution (i.e by random mutation and natural selection) operates over a gene pool or population, not at the level of individual organisms. I do however echo your sadness, that we can’t easily study things without killing a few of them first.