Whats the joke of boys not being able to swing on the swing too high?

Largely because the process you're hoping to see - an individual animal turning into something else - is an example of mutation, not evolution. Evolution happens gradually, generationally, to whole species. It is the process by which tiny changes in DNA - which can be addition, transcription errors, or subtractive (and are the mutation part) - expressed as slight changes to how the creature's offspring looks or what it does.

That part is random, and can be beneficial or deleterious to its survival, which is where the non random part comes in. An animal slightly better suited to its environment - say, with a slightly pointier beak to dig more grubs out of bark - has the potential to survive better and pass its better, pointier, genes to more offspring than its fellows. After a while the pointier beak becomes dominant in the population.

This part is completely not random, the part Creationists like to forget about and is called natural selection. For it to work properly there has to be a thing known as "selection pressure" - that is, a force like predation or food scarcity making the changes really matter. If a species has a rather nice niche carved out for itself, like, say, your dog, it will just stay more or less the same, subject only to a thing called genetic drift.

That's where the first, random part happens but as long as it isn't too detrimental a change or knocks the species out of the niche it's in, the mutation just sticks around. Dogs are subject to artificial selection, though, which is us humans breeding them in specific ways for features *we* desire, but which may not be in the animal's best interests. That's why pugs have breathing problems and what passes for pedigree Alsatians these days can barely stand up - if you ever want another dog might I heartily suggest going nowhere near pedigree breeds.

They'd never be that way in the wild; natural selection would ensure it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.