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Author: ErikModi

Apr 24th 2017 at 5:13:47 PM

A) Because it was, up until very recently, actually (more recently than I thought, even).  B) Because you never mentioned any objection to that portion of the trope description until you just went ahead and changed it.  C) Because abbreviated description of the ScienceMarchesOn aspect is, I think, germane to the description of the trope itself (explaining why the "As Cro-Magnon exterminated Neanderthal, so must X exterminate homo sapiens" analogy crops up in a large number of works which use this trope), and laying a foundation for future {{Discussed}} uses of the trope, wherein characters may actually bring up the newer model of Cro-Magnon-Neanderthal relations in rebuttal of attempts to invoke the trope.  D) Because your change rendered that paragraph, in my opinion, so short as to be pointless.  It had to be expanded so it actually said something that contributed to the description, or cut completely.  I feel it's still worth including. E) The theory does not, as you seem to claim, originate from X-Men.  It was a well-founded and popular theory since it was first advanced in 1912, and has nothing to do with people throwing fireballs.