Evolution: Fast or Slow or fast and slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox

I did not read the article, but it raises an interesting question of whether natural evolution can move at various speeds.

That would certainly help to explain why life on earth is so resilient despite real enormous catastrophes in the very distant and not so distant past.

It would also challenge, if not question, the incessant daily alarmism and hysteria coming from the propaganda and demagoguery related to the manufactured climate change "crisis".

Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. | Quanta Magazine Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.”