Can somebody explain to me why this is apparently being downvoted ? Is Richard Lenski very far from the consensus of his field ? Scientific dishonesty ?
I imagine it's because 73k generations of bacteria takes a lot less time than 73k generations of coral or other larger organisms.
It's important that people understand that the mechanism of evolution has been conclusively demonstrated in a laboratory within a single researcher's lifespan.
Which offers no relief to the predicament of coral, which was the original context of this convo.