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Just because there was genetic diversity before the asteroid does not mean it did not affect things. A human builds a shack in the woods and that has measurable
by kjkjadksj 3y ago
Just because there was genetic diversity before the asteroid does not mean it did not affect things. A human builds a shack in the woods and that has measurable impact in terms of ecosystem disturbance decades even centuries after its a ruin. An asteroid is going to do something.
- dang 3y agoI feel like I caused this problem by replacing the article's title with "The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs didn't impact bird evolution: new study". I wanted something less baity than the article's own title, in keeping with the site guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The problem is that it is too easy to object to. "Didn't impact" is too strong. Everything impacts everything, as you say—especially asteroids. But now we're in generic tangent territory, driven by a bad title rather than anything interesting (or indeed, anything at all) about the study. Since the edit made things worse, I'm going to drop it. Sorry.