They say evolution is a very gradual process, but sometimes it seems like it's got to take some pretty big leaps. Life most likely started out in the water so coming out onto land was a pretty big deal. If you take a fish and put it onto land it flops around for awhile and dies. I know amphibians are like the link between land and sea dwelling creatures, but still... where did that foothold into not dying on land come from? Let alone being fully adapted to land? Can you imagine trying to go back into the sea? So we'll get people who can hold their breath progressively longer and longer until suddenly we re-develop gills or something.
Then there's flight. How did that happen? Some land dwelling creature jumped off a cliff and didn't fall? Evolution is some weird shit.
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