Not sure if I did not mention it once, but Australian Aborigines have a peculiar notion of evolution (yes, that is a part of their belief system).

They use a term that had been translated as Dreamtime. It is not really an accurate translation. Probably Supernature would be a tad closer.

The story goes like so:
“One day, fish dreamed/imagined of becoming a turtle, and became a turtle. Then turtle dreamed/imagined another day of becoming a lizars and became a lizard. Then lizard dreamed/imagined of becoming a roo and became a roo…”

The progression in the story may be somewhat familiar. But the story does not seem to elucidate the mechanism. Or does it?

There seems to a consciousness and will implied in the mechanism. It does not mean that the animal was the source of the “dream”.

I think that a long time ago, Aborigibes had a quite well developed body of what we call today a science.

Some oddities that seems to point to that beside their apparent cocept of evolution:
They were able to do blood transfusion by use of a straw obtained from one type of grass. They cut both ends at a sharp angle (like a medical needle) and inserted one end in a vein of a donor and the other end in the vein of a recipient. They knew blood types, or rather they had elaborate rules how to avoid mixing of wrong blood types. They also knew a plant that was functioning like a pill–e.g anticonception medicine.

In that light, the presence of the concept of evolution is not that surprising. But in contrast to modern reductionist science, they knew where the Dreamtime imagining originated.