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Why aren't Java Collections remove methods generic?

Why is the signature of Collection.remove() defined as follows:

public boolean remove(Object o)

and not

public boolean remove(E e)

where E is the type of collection.

We know if c is a Collection of type E [Collection<E>] then c will always contain objects of E or sub classes of E. Then why don't we restrict the method parameter to either E or ? extends E

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