There is not empathy in bacteria, but there are chemicals, the enginnering systems (precursors of neural tissue) and maybe others as well.
So, natural selection leads to evolution.
However, you are claiming that other things lead to natural selection even though you don't have a mechanism for it, AND when we point out things that don't have even the concept you are pitching, you admit that they aren't subject.
Basically you have nothing.
I'm getting bored.