Three Famous Hypotheses and How They Were Tested
Scientists have developed and tested hypotheses for centuries. HowStuffWorks looks at three groundbreaking hypotheses and the predictions they tested.
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Scientists have developed and tested hypotheses for centuries. HowStuffWorks looks at three groundbreaking hypotheses and the predictions they tested.
Author This is an abridged version of Ruth Kinna’s foreword to Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution” (PM Press, 2021). In March 1889 Peter Kropotkin agreed to give six lectures to William Morris’s Socialist Society in Hammersmith, London. Labeling the series “Social Evolution,” he planned to explore “the grounds” of socialism. As it turned out, he never delivered the talks, but the title and timing, just a year before he published his first essay on mutual aid, hint at the content. He left a bigger clue when he told Morris’s daughter May that he h...