Another example of how the ToE is the omni-theory that explains everything. If the “researchers” had found no change they would have concluded that there were no selective pressures on this little isolated population, hence, no change, just as the ToE would have predicted. So you have a conclusion that supports ToE whatever the outcome and most of the “technical” paper can be prepared before you ever start the study.
I read once where evolution explains my wife's shopping habits and even the concept of G-d was an evolutionary result to promote survival.
“Another example of how the ToE is the omni-theory that explains everything.”
Right on. I could write a paper describing how evolutionary forces made the discovery of the theory of evolution inevitable, and they’d probably give me the Nobel Prize.