Timeline for Over-use of "If a trait would be advantageous to an organism, why hasn't it evolved"
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:27 | answer | added | rumtscho | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 18:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBiology/status/661967011208146944 | ||
| Oct 28, 2015 at 23:22 | history | edited | AliceDMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | AliceD Mod | @fileunderwater - Indeed, it doesn't answer pretty much any of them. That's my point. If low-quality questions are closed through the community question, I am fine. But shouldn't be used to dismiss potentially interesting questions that only touch on the topic of the community question. It's over-used. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 14:21 | comment | added | fileunderwater | Well, the community question doesn't really answer any of the questions that are closed as duplicates. I think the main purpose is to highlight why such questions are often ill-posed and usually invite to evolutionary storytelling (evolutionary just-so stories). | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 9:27 | comment | added | AliceD Mod | @fileunderwater it's not to me. The community question does not answer the question. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 9:12 | comment | added | fileunderwater | @AliceD I was mainly wondering since you specifically argue that it makes a big difference that the community question is a "Why not" question, while the locomotion Q is a "Why" question. To me, the distinction is relatively unimportant and superfluous. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 4:49 | comment | added | WYSIWYG Mod | That If a trait would be advantageous to an organism, why hasn't it evolved? question was created for this sole purpose. It is like a wiki information and the answers serve as canonical explanations for all the questions of this kind. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 2:24 | comment | added | AliceD Mod | @fileunderwater - that wouldn't change the nature of the question indeed, because that's part of the answer. They profit by the 2x3 construction. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 14:49 | answer | added | March Ho | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 13:08 | comment | added | fileunderwater | For argument's sake, do you think it would make a difference if somebody rephrased the insect question to: "Why don't insects have 4 legs?"? To me, for poorly researched questions, it often doesn't matter whether poeple are asking about "lack of X" or "having X" (which implies "not lack of X"). I do agree that the closing as duplicate to this question is a bit overused though. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 10:21 | history | edited | AliceDMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 9:46 | history | edited | AliceDMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 9:29 | history | asked | AliceDMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |