The Axial Age

The eonic effect: as Darwinism crashes…
What if evolutionary dynamics operates at high-speed over short intervals of time? Too short for us to observe. This possibility is never considered by biologists, because it invokes the possibility that theories of evolution are, so far, beyond our grasp. We don’t have empirically documented intervals observed at close range (geographically specific) over short intervals of time.
With one exception, world history. World history is the one dataset we have that is observed at close range (geographically specific histories in global zones) over short intervals, in fact, century by century. There is still much that is missing, but the documentation of the last five thousand years that is emerging is rapidly becoming a century by century chronicle, in fact, in many cases a decade by decade chronicle.
This is a unique data set, the only one we have that might tell us if short range high speed evolution exists.
Sure enough, with the eonic effect we discover just that, and it is a real whopper.

As an example consider the Axial Age (an aspect of the eonic effect). In less than three centuries a global transformation occurs that remorphs whole cultures in parallel producing a distinct ratchet effect as these sourcing areas almost jump to a new level of culture. Then the transformation subsides and the system returns to a relative steady state. There is no trace of any genetic component, nor does it have anything to do with natural selection.
Three centuries!! a mere instant against the backdrop of deep time. Imagine what we are probably missing, perhaps, in all those millions of years!
Furthermore, you can go to the library and check the data.