How long does it take for a prominent trait to evolve out of a population?

Could something like, say, elephants losing their trunks or avian species losing/gaining the ability to fly happen in just a couple hundred thousand years or would it take millions?

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How long does it take for a prominent trait to evolve out of a population?

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