[Coral-List] Disruptive science?

[Dennis Hubbard]

Thanks Thomas:

I penned my latest missive before getting this far down the list. It is
amazing how controversial Darwin's idea was and how much good debate it
spurred. I

Dennis

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 3:10 PM Tomas via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Thanks for the link to the Nature paper John. When it comes to coral
> reefs the 'biggest' "disruptive" theory in my mind has to be Darwin’s
> theory of coral reef formation.
> Tomas
>
>
> Quoting John Ware via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>:
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I recently read the following paper in Nature:
> >
> > /Wu L, Wang D, Evans JA (2019) Large teams develop and small teams
> > disrupt science and technology. Nature 566:378-382/ I began to think
> > back on my (limited) involvement with coral reef science. Realizing
> > that 'disruptive' is a good thing, what ideas have been
> > 'disruptive'? The two that came immediately to mind were Peter
> > Sale's 'lottery  hypothesis' (Proc. 2nd Coral Reef Symposium: 1974)
> > and Buddemeier and Fautin's Adaptive Bleaching Hypothesis
> > (BioScience 1993). I am curious: What other big ones did I miss? John
> >
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