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Surely everything scientists discover 'rewrites' our understanding of something? That's the whole point isn't it? Interesting article though.
by mojo74 3y ago
Surely everything scientists discover 'rewrites' our understanding of something? That's the whole point isn't it? Interesting article though.
- Timon3 3y agoNo, why? A discovery can fit in with your existing models, maybe even be predicted. You discover it, but you don't change your understanding, only expand it.
- dlkf 3y agoLots of discoveries are confirmatory. We already believed relativity was true before we observed observing binary pulsars obeying it.
- stareatgoats 3y agoYou're right of course, but some editor thought it too cumbersome (and not so sensational) to write "fills a major gap in our understanding of the early evolution of eukaryotes", so they wrote "history" instead which allows much more room for the imagination.