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Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

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The Dispensability of Scientists and Inventors

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In the 1870s, there are 23 people in that decade alone who deserve independent credit for coming up with the idea of the incandescent light bulb. There's a sort of complete dispensability of scientists and inventors that really surprises me when you think about it. So I'm very much coming down on the anti-great man theory side of history.

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