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Hardy-Weinberg certainly models evolution, albeit in a simple way, in terms of changes in allele frequency. It doesn't suggest that any evolution other than allelic frequency changes should occur.
I don't think H-W models evolution at all. It just shows the relationship between alleles and genotypes in a population with random mating, large population size, no selection, etc. The genotypic frequencies may change, but not the allelic frequencies.
Now, variations of H-W certaintly do show allelic frequency changes. These are the ones that include selection coefficients, genetic drift coefficients, mutation rates, etc. I'm not sure if these are considered H-W theorems, since I thought H-W specifically referred to H-W equilibrium.
If you were referring to the latter, then this is just semantics since I can see how one could consider the equations which involve the different coefficients H-W theorems.
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