It looks like above when you walk back from one species towards its origin (no branching on the way back). It is basically a history graph.

Just saying the top graph also has its purpose.

So true. I hate that the march of progress fully implies that humans are the 'best' because of their position.

In reality the evolutionary diagram puts all currently living organisms on the same podium. Modern humans are not the end goal.

Your right. But who will explain this to Fatboy Slim now?

youtu.be/ub747pprmJ8

Down with teleology, I say.

The cladal bush works on a number of scales, but its best message is that context matters, any singular definition in biology is just an artefact made up to group a diverse and varying population into a discussion point.

Also that if you do find a population lacking in diversity and variability, that twig on the bush is not going to last long.

Sure there are short linear blips, long curvy differentials... all between the Big Bang/Crunch Singularities.

Without scalar differential equations; there's no you, me, or a bird named bee. Now where are those flowers and trees?..

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I can no longer see an evolutionary chart without this image popping into my brain.

Apparently taken from that other social media place back in March of 2020.

Caricature says "Something something transitional fossils."

(All the fossils are transitional forms, except a few tgst are dead ends. We are a transitional forms. Let us try not to be th3 latter.)

the only one who looks happy is at the root of the tree.

It's almost as if we're getting something wrong.

for last tuxedo laptop, i did not nuke the hard disks. it didn't have windows at the first place.

but previous two, i wiped hardisks byte by byte.

not quite true with laptops as it is with pc.

Some new laptops are struggling with Linux and new graphics cards.

Took me months to discuss software with a developer while trying to make it play nice with Linux for it to buck me off of it all because of a graphics driver and spanking new motherboard.

Linux still has some work to do. Kde plasma isn’t working at par yet to let go of windows.

I really really wanted this to work but we aren’t here yet.

Had the pleasure of doing this a couple of days ago on a new (to me) Dell Latitude. Nuked Windows and installed Debian Trixie on first boot.

Linux isn't perfect, but it's gotten better and better over the last 15 years that I've been a user, while Windows (which I use at work) has morphed from an okay-ish OS to a dumpster fire.