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How can the process of scientific creativity be explained? Do discov- eries result from inductive reasoning, with scientists cautiously con- structing theories from a growing foundation of facts? Or are they the products of sudden, inexplicable strokes of genius the gifted few?
Gould, who teaches the history of science at Harvard, rejects both theories. Describing Charles Darwin's progress...