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What makes you think it isn't happening in the wild? Evolution does not happen on the timescales of human lifetimes.

• ceejayoz 2y ago
  Richard Lenski would disagree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...
  • cassepipe 2y ago
    Can somebody explain to me why this is apparently being downvoted ? Is Richard Lenski very far from the consensus of his field ? Scientific dishonesty ?
    • notamy 2y ago
      I imagine it's because 73k generations of bacteria takes a lot less time than 73k generations of coral or other larger organisms.
      • ceejayoz 2y ago
        It's important that people understand that the mechanism of evolution has been conclusively demonstrated in a laboratory within a single researcher's lifespan.
        • glenstein 2y ago
          Which offers no relief to the predicament of coral, which was the original context of this convo.
  • glenstein 2y ago
    Yes, but. E. coli is E. coli and coral is coral. It may not be the case that coral can, on its own, evolve in the ways necessary to save itself from heated oceans in the time that E. Coli could.