Natural selection affects undesirable traits, because as time pass on, the undesirable traits will be lost due to the competition with the desirable traits. For an example, the Rabbits that runs slower than normal rabbits, will eventually die due to the natural selection because the normal ones will run faster than the undesirable one.
There was an evolution of land because there was water back in Egypt and now there isn’t because now is a dessert
The only difference is that animals need the raw resources from another source for respiration, while plants usually have the materials for respiration ready as they have produced them in photosynthesis.