Scientific discovery is generally (i) ______ process,
building on and supplementing the discoveries made by previous researchers.
USUALLY THE DISCOVERIES ARE a process of add up, one after one another. So the first blank is cumulative
But those discoveries that tend to alter the trajectory of human thought are often made in isolation of previous (ii) ______
Shift word BUT: sometimes the trajectory is unusual so the previous paradigms (discoveries) are isolated processes
Darwin's discovery of evolution, for example, though mainstream today, was not obviously (iii) _______ by the work of any naturalists before him.
for example Darwin's theory, which now is common to know, at the time was not anticipated by anyone at the time
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