Sentence examples for multiple discovery theory from inspiring English sources

It's called the "multiple discovery theory," which, contrary to the "heroic theory of invention," posits that discoveries are most often made by multiple people, not by lone "geniuses".

In July 2011, Jon Mooallem of ESPN The Magazine published an in-depth investigation into the origins of the high five, detailing the Dodgers' contribution but also positing a multiple discovery theory.

Wikipedia has an entire section on well-known instances of "multiple discovery," including the discovery of calculus and the theory of evolution.

That's one reason for "multiple discoveries" – the phenomenon whereby more than one person came up with the idea for the telephone, the theory of evolution and the jet engine, within a short time of each other.

Today, there is even continuously expanding Wikipedia list of multiple inventions ("list of multiple discoveries").

For individual brain region metrics, a false discovery rate (FDR) correction was applied across the 76 brain regions, and a Bonferroni correction was applied for the multiple graph theory measures tested in both the regional and whole brain analyses.

The combination of theoretical models were the empowerment model, theories of planned behaviour and personal models of sickness [ 37], the empowerment model and the discovery learning theory [ 38], the social cognitive theory and the social ecological theory [ 50], the self-efficacy and self-management theories [ 55] and the cognitive theory and operant reinforcement theory [ 56].

Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory helps us understand the different ways that we are "smart".

There are people who believe in the "multiple crash theory".

Scientists call it a "multiple independent discovery".

There were multiple competing theories about how the leaked list emerged and who drew it up.