Posted in Genesis?
Genesis 1 doesn't mention natural selection at all (it's entirely interested in divine selection) and the order of appearance of things is distinctly peculiar to modern eyes. The first life (on the third day) was seed bearing land plants, not bacteria, archaea and the procaryotes in aqueous environments around thermal vents perhaps. Even more strangely, these first plants appeared before the Sun had been created on the fourth day. Sea life didn't appear until the fifth day.
http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Genesis1
The ancient Greeks did a much better job in my opinion. The earliest Presocratics proposed evolutionary schemes. Xenophanes believed that the world had once been wetter than it is today and cited fossil seashells in the hills of Greece as evidence of this.
Empedocles developed a rather fanciful theory of natural selection in which he imagined that anatomical organs originally came together in chance combinations and many monstrous forms of early life had disappeared (or largely disappeared, a few might remain in far distant lands) because it was difficult for them to survive compared to the more efficient forms.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ancient.html
This theory was picked up by the Epicureans and in the Roman period we see an ancient version of the 'survival of the fittest' idea being repeated by Lucretius in his
On the Nature of Things. Book V:
"And in the ages after monsters died,
perforce there perished many a stock, unable
by propagation to forge a progeny.
For whatsoever creature thou beholdest
breathing the breath of life, the same have been
even from their earliest age preserved alive
by cunning, or by valor, or at least
by speed of foot or wing."
The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that they had empirical evidence that monsters had once roamed the earth. That's because they periodically discovered huge bones in the Earth, that must have come from giants that lived long before their time, and other traces of strange life that we today would call 'fossils'. They collected them, displayed them in their museums and tried to explain them.
Here's a book about ancient Greek and Roman paleontology:
https://www.amazon.com/First-Fossil-Hunters-Paleontology-Times/dp/0691058636