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  2. List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The Big Bang theory was confirmed in 1929 by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble's analysis of galactic redshifts. [62] But the Big Bang theory had been presaged three-quarters of a century earlier in the American poet and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe's then much-derided essay, Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848). [12] [63] [64]

  3. Multiple discovery - Wikipedia

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    Multiple discoveries in the history of science provide evidence for evolutionary models of science and technology, such as memetics (the study of self-replicating units of culture), evolutionary epistemology (which applies the concepts of biological evolution to study of the growth of human knowledge), and cultural selection theory (which studies sociological and cultural evolution in a ...

  4. Objections to evolution - Wikipedia

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    Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different ...

  5. 'Oldest living thing' on earth discovered and it may prove ...

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    Scientists have identified the oldest living species on Earth is a deep sea organism that hasn't evolved in more than two billion years. And, it may prove Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

  6. Bold hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    In much, if not most, scientific work in the real world, scientists are not mooting bold hypotheses. Instead, they are working patiently on systematic and detailed tests of a small facet of a much larger theory or research programme; Thomas Kuhn called this "normal science". Thus, progress may come about not so much because somebody has a ...

  7. J. B. S. Haldane - Wikipedia

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    As the paper was written during Haldane's service during World War I, James F. Crow called it "the most important science article ever written in a front-line trench". [14] Haldane recalled that he was the "only officer to complete a scientific paper from a forward position of the Black Watch". [ 26 ]

  8. Doppelgänger - Wikipedia

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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864. A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -⁠gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.

  9. Timothée Chalamet and Glen Powell took their lookalikes to ...

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    Timothée Chalamet and Glen Powell brought lookalike competition winners to the Golden Globes. Lookalike competitions sprung up in 2024 for actors like Zendaya, Paul Mescal, and Jeremy Allen White.