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Three major components seem to condition scientific research: 1) No discovery in science arises from nowhere. 2) No result is independent of its historic and socio-economic period. 3) Every discovery is anchored on the technology available at a given time.
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Lima-de-Faria, A. (2003). The precursors. In: One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research and What Remains to be Learned. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0167-9_2
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