
Alpha - Project Alpha Part II
World's Greatest Con
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In the 1670s, Isaac Newton invented calculus. In 1987, George Harrison finds himself in a courtroom because somebody else thinks his song is a total ripoff. The theory of evolution gets independently advanced in the 1800s by both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. According to research of Robert K. Merton, these multiple discoveries are not an outlier; they're the rule.
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