Yes - even if you happen to buy in to all of the developments that get one from plants to fish to animals to legged or flying animals and all of that...
...there's still sexual reproduction. Two compatible creatures being required that have to be in the same region of earth at the same time with dissimilar-yet-necessary cells and instead of trying to eat one another for survival, they instead come together and produce multiple offspring via a process that's also dissimilar among multiple species.
And don't even get me started on the chemical processes that are necessary to provide for ovulation, conception, the carrying of young, giving birth - a wholly unique event on its own - and nursing young.
Fascinating stuff, that genetic mutation thing. /s
Evolution doesn’t take place on that scale. It is a change in the frequency of certain alleles within a population.