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I think whatever numerical parameter evolution raised generally (not always) in respect to its environment, it would have to do with meaningful complexity , however that can be numerically expressed, and local decrease in entropy. Design would cause those too, but hypothesizing it would violate occam's razor.
Different environments and different substrates for mutation cause different kinds of evolutions.
One main thing that happens with a long enough period of selection in a simple, stable environment on a microorganism is a shrinking of the genome.
You quite simply will not find a simple parameter perpetually increased by evolution. Whatever works better for that base organism in that particular environment will become more common. One thing being selected for under all circumstances and showing up all the time is just not the reality.