Swallows Seem To Be Evolving to Avoid Cars

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It doesn't matter what they think, they've failed to provide any evidence of this being a new development.

I am intrigued as to why it has to be a "new development" to be evolution?

As has been pointed out, natural selection just means what leads to the most survival all else being equal.

Evolution can regress, it can make new use of old features, it can do anything as long as it bestows an advantage.

I may be wrong, but you seem to either not fully understand evolution or to be willfully missinterpreting it for some reason.