How do you know there is any ‘way to evolve’ ? Let alone multiple…
It’s possible for all promising pathways to last for hundreds of millions of years and then hit a dead end… just because a really big comet came by or some other random event.
Anything that ensures you have higher success in reproduction than others causes your traits to be over-expressed in the next generation, where if these traits are passed onto your offspring somehow, be it because they are genetically encoded, socially encoded and you have social contact with your offspring to a degree where you pass these behavioural traits on etc. then any of those things will count as an avenue through which your lineage, and therefor your species, can evolve. Now, the traditional evolutionary pressures, coming from environmental stressors have largely not impacted our species in quite some time. Don't like the climate? do we evolve because some people are better sutied and therefore reproduce more readily? no. We built climate control. We have some pathogen, where some folks are less susceptible to the pathogen? no. We develop medication to fight the disease.
However, we do have socio-economic pressures which are not being dealt with through technology like we deal with environmental pressures, so these still exist, and are complicated. Arguably more complicated than ever before. There's your economic strategy, social strategy, migratory strategy etc. all of which impact your and your offspring's reproductive success, in turn creating evolutionary pressures that lead to entrenching certain traits.
Evolution stops only when the current average is the best suited to the current environment, or when the current environment removes all selective pressure.
>How do you know there is any ‘way to evolve’ ? Let alone multiple…
I explained what evolution is and why there are many avenues through which evolutionary pressures can arise and cause change. If the explanation is beyond you, that could be a me issue, it might be you didnt read things properly, it could be the knowledge gap between us is bigger than either of us realise. Either way, I've asked an llm (local and chatgpt) to explain my comment like I am 5, and it does a good job, so try querying an llm on the topic, getting it to help bridge the gap.
*edit* ive done the same for your comment and llms seem to indicate you were trying to raise a what-if scenario of "what if all this evolution happens and is nullified by a catastrophe"
if that was your take/question/contribution we are done here, as that's not a useful or thought provoking question. What if the sun blows up tomorrow. What if it is all a false vacuum and true vacuum forms in my big toe tomorrow and space time itself unravels before i can so much as fart. If thats our line of thinking we should stop wasting our time and join a monsatry, join others in a long standing tradition of indulging a pointless and arbitrary whatif.
It’s possible for all promising pathways to last for hundreds of millions of years and then hit a dead end… just because a really big comet came by or some other random event.