A crisis in the history of scientific discovery

Patrick Matthew.
The Biological Father
of Natural Selection

Progress in search engine technology facilitated research in Google's Library Project of over 30 million searchable books and other publications, which led to game changing discoveries that transform the unique anomaly of Darwin's and Wallace's claimed dual independent discoveries of Matthew's prior-published original ideas from a vexation into a crisis in the history of scientific discovery.

The issue of Patrick Mathew's priority over Darwin and Wallace for his own prior-published and cited discovery is not something that the history of scientific discovery can ethically or sensibly ignore if it is to be of any use in helping us to understand how the discovery of natural selection occurred. Such knowledge is important, because it is fundamental in developing ways to increase the chances of making other great discoveries in the future.

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Scotland's Greatest Scientific Discovery?

Trumpet form the rooftopsAttribution

Darwin and Wallace were influenced by Matthew's prior-discovery, replicated it and then claimed zero-prior knowledge of it.

1. Daniel C. Dennett (1996) :

‘…the single best idea anyone has ever had, I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law.’

BUT:

2. We know it is not Darwin’s original idea. Matthew discovered and published it 27 years before Darwin and knowledge contamination from Matthew's published discovery to Darwin and Wallace happened pre-1858 (Sutton 2014).

Wallace. Moreover, we now know that, despite each man claiming to have done so, that neither Darwin nor Wallace discovered it independently either. Because in 2014 I published my unique discovery of multiple instances of Matthewian knowledge contamination of the work of Darwin and Wallace.

THIS MEANS:

4. There can be now only one independent discoverer of natural selection!

SO WHAT?

5. Do you think, as do I, that this new discovery of who really discovered the World’s greatest scientific discovery, which was then misappropriated by those attributed with independently discovering it, is an important discovery in its own right? If so, then please trumpet it from the rooftops.

TAKING NATURAL SELECTION HOME TO SCOTLAND

The Scots need now to add this discovery to their already impressive list of great Scottish discoveries. So far, it's off their radar - See Top 20 Discoveries Made in Scotland   

References

Dennett, D. C. (1996) Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Great Britain. The Penguin Press.

Sutton, M. (2014) Internet Dating with Darwin: New Discovery that Darwin and Wallace were Influenced by Matthew's Prior-Discovery. BestThinking.com

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