That's certainly not "evolution".
The challenge was about how oil companies really go about finding oil ~ and, the answer is, they rely on somebody else's discoveries.
Flapdoodle!
My father (PhD Geology) did oil exploration before switching to uranium exploration. I spent many an hour in the field with him. Believe it when I say he used all kinds of interleaved data to hunt for new oil fields.
He was good at it too. BTW, evolution was one of those data points.