Reception
Without being released as a single, "Do the Evolution" peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 33 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1998. In Canada, the song reached the top 50 on the Canadian Singles Chart. At the 1999 Grammy Awards, "Do the Evolution" received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance.
In E! Online's review of Yield, "Do the Evolution" was described as having a "Neil Young-Beck hybrid feel." Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly stated, "On the album's most gleeful hip shaker, "Do the Evolution", Vedder howls throwaway lyrics...while the guitars gnash and grind at the primitive melody, briefly evoking the gnarly cacophony of the Stooges' monumental Fun House."
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