Invariably, upon first contact with the prehistory of whichever epochal research programme you like, you have the reaction 'whoa, I can't believe *they* knew each other'. With exposure to enough of these supposedly chance encounters, you start to question just what was in the water. But if you take a closer look at the coming-of-age of the dramatis personae themselves, a puzzle emerges: by our standards, they are ordinarily rather glaringly underqualified for the task we know them to be about to take on.
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