When Nobel laureates are announced annually—especially in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, and economics—increasingly, … See more

The paradigm of recombinant conceptualization (see above)—more broadly, of recombinant occurrences—that explains multiple discovery in science and the arts, also … See more

After Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had exchanged information on their respective systems of calculus in the 1670s, Newton in the first edition of his Principia (1687), in a scholium, apparently accepted Leibniz's independent discovery of calculus. In 1699, … See more

1. ^ Griswold, Martin (2012-11-25). "Are Inventions Inevitable? Simultaneous Invention and the Incremental Nature of Discovery" (self-published blog). The Long Nose: Technology and the Economy. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
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Multiple discoveries in the history of science provide evidence for evolutionary models of science and technology, such as See more

Lamb and Easton, and others, have argued that science and art are similar with regard to multiple discovery. When two scientists independently make the same discovery, their papers are not word-for-word identical, but the core ideas in the papers are the … See more

• Axial Age
• Coincidence
• Convergent evolution
• Discovery (observation)
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