Pop science evolution has focused on individual + gene-level selection, which are made out to be so efficient that there's no room for experiments. I bet there

Pop science evolution has focused on individual + gene-level selection, which are made out to be so efficient that there's no room for experiments. I bet there's some species-level, distributed, scratch-pad-style R&D going on. Maybe sexual selection is rigged to favor novelty, and incremental progress is cached somehow.