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I'm putting a lot of effort here for the likes of billy kid, so hopefully this is educational for him

you might have seen this image of evolution


this is NOT an accurate depiction of evolution. no biologist today is saying that it is. this is what hominid evolution actually looks like, a family tree:


this is not the first time ever that an inaccurate depiction of a scientific theory has been corrected over time as new evidence emerges.

for example, you might have seen the atomic model we were taught in school


this is not accurate. electrons don't orbit a nucleus the way planets orbit a star. quantum physics have corrected that interpretation of the atomic model a long time ago, just like evolutionary science has corrected darwin's original origin of species.

what actually happens with an atom is something like this:

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https://imgur.com/6cPXvLN