In this article, BBC reports that animal behavior changes do not appear to be coordinated very well with the environmental changes they appear to be aimed at and with other species. For example, certain catepillars seem to be emerging earlier in the year, and some birds haven't responded, some have begun laying eggs earlier in the year - but by too much.
Although changes deal with behavior, not genetics per se, it does make one wonder about the grand processes that are held as the sacred cows of science and education. So apparently evolution is all fine and well to explain how the universe came to exist, but is inadequate when it comes to common observable changes?
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