15:2115:21, 20 May 2018diffhist+33
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
→Psychology: surely Leibniz wasn’t writing on evolution in the sense of the wikipedia article. I don’t see an example of him writing on any evolution-related topics, including evolutionary psychology, so a citation is needed.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
18 May 2018
14:4114:41, 18 May 2018diffhist−194
Christian views on slavery
→Old Testament: “we enslave foreigners” seems close enough in intent to “we want to enslave foreigners” that this sentence makes little sense. It also had no citation and appeared to be an opinion rather than a statement of fact about the old testament.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
16:0316:03, 13 May 2018diffhist+35
Midrange computer
→Positioning: most would define computer power as computational speed. If computational speed is what we’re speaking of, this statement is wrong. There are no mainframes in use as supercomputers today. Should this statement be “resilient” rather than “powerful”?Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
15:5815:58, 13 May 2018diffhist+11
Midrange computer
→Positioning: why would you use a midrange server for high-end services and large-scale processing of many business applications? the latter sounds more like the job of a mainframe.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
15:5115:51, 13 May 2018diffhist+11
Midrange computer
all computers between modern mainframes and 1980s home computers are midrange? The citation is obsolete.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
03:1603:16, 12 May 2018diffhist−1,077
Machairodontinae
→Homotherium: removed the irrelevant paragraph about current-day lions with no mention of homotherium and no relevance to the following paragraph, along with its questionable web citationsTags: references removedMobile editMobile web edit
13:0213:02, 10 May 2018diffhist+19
Thrifty gene hypothesis
→Other alternative hypotheses: I would have thought that the main problem is that humans are clearly evolved as K strategists since significant parental investment is required for any possibility of offspring survival. anyway citation needed wrt being the “main problem.”Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
13:1313:13, 8 May 2018diffhist+1
Circumesophageal nerve ring
all animals are eukaryotes, so that statement was clearly untrue, bringing into question the validity of the entire “structurally possible” statementTags: Mobile editMobile web edit