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My recollection is that at least two other people came up with the idea of evolution around the same time. Charles Darwin got credit for it for whatever reason,
by DoreenMichele 4y ago
My recollection is that at least two other people came up with the idea of evolution around the same time. Charles Darwin got credit for it for whatever reason, but it seems likely the world was at a point where the pieces were there and just needed to be put together and several people did put it together but only one got credit for it.
- screye 4y agoThe one that blow my mind the most was the simultaneous invention of calculus. Modern Calculus can be reasonably thought of as the most important mathematical leap forward of the last 1000 years. If there was ever an invention that can be considered a piece of unquestionable genius, then that's calculus. And somehow, it was simultaneously invented by 2 different people within a few years of each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculus_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...