Evolution sans conscious intent, yes. It does not work that way. Nevertheless, selection can, and does. We've been breeding both beasts, and humans, based on human priorities, for a very long time.
Most of this isn't actually an argument against my point. It's just an insistence that I address your questions on your terms, based on your erroneous assumptions.
Democracy tended to have better results not because of the system, but because the kind of populations which generally adopted it tended to be comparatively advantaged. Which was one of the reasons it was appealing. But then, the results of actually utilizing it, in the long term, have come to deteriorate the qualities of the population which made it so appealing.
