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Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.In celebration of happy accidents and enlightening errors, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., tells the stories of five great scientific mistakes in his new book "Brilliant Blunders" (Simon & Schuster, May 14, 2013). These stories serve to show how even the smartest among us can err, and that in fact to achieve a big breakthrough, big risks are necessary, which sometimes also involve big failures.Below are Livio's choices for the most brilliant scientific blunders. [ Oops! 5 Retracted Science Studies ]Darwin's notion of heredity Charles Darwin achieved an amazing feat when he came up with his theory of natural selection in 1859."Darwin was an incredible genius," Livio told LiveScience. "His idea of evolution by natural selection is just mind-boggli...
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