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The cracks that Magda feels are "healthy" are absolutely that. They are central to all progression in technology, science, literary analysis, etc. It is out of the chaos of not everyone feeling, percieving and thinking in the same manner that the greatest ideas emerge. It takes men and women that believe in ideas that go aganist the grain in order for these ideas to emerge and develop- Darwin, Franklin, Einstein, among others. The right idea may not always come out of the "crack" but it allows for others to build upon or deconstruct it in order for something different to emerge. Uniformity is and never has been a concept that has brought about change.

Furthermore, I am not sure if I view the novel as an evolutionary text. It seems to be concensus that evolution has to create something new. The characters all experience evolution in their own right as a result of attempting to solve internal and external conflicts but is that not how most if not all fictional novels work? There has to be some type of conflict or issue that needs to be solved and it is the unraveling of these issues that allows for resolution. These characters change over time due to their observations but I just don't understand how this could be deemed an evolutionary text. In the most basic sense, we could view "The Polar Express" among other children's books as an evolutionary texts then.