Evolution was largely theorized and understood down to the nuance that each parent contributed to a ‘doubled seed’ for trait inheritance and that trait success depended on survival of the fittest well before Jesus was even born.
(In fact, the author who wrote the only surviving book detailing this used the specific language of calling failed biological reproduction as “seed falling by the wayside of a path” around 80 years before the parable of the sower described how seed that fell by the wayside of the path didn’t reproduce but that which found fertile soil produced more and more - a parable unanimously spoken in public in canon but provided a secret explanation thereafter and one believed by ‘heretics’ to have been referring to seeds described extremely similar to how Leucretius described his “seeds of things” in De Rerum Natura, the aforementioned book. Also, in the extra-canonical scripture this ‘heretical’ group followed, the parable of the sower immediately followed a couplet of sayings about how no matter if lion ate man or man ate lion that man was inevitable and how the human being was like a large fish selected from many small fish in the sea.)