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M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury Scientists often re-invent things which were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of p...M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury Scientists often re-invent things which were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain experimental data on the sizes of biological genera, collected by Willis. We estimate that scientists are busy re-discovering America about 2/3 of time.

Ravi Kumar and Jasmine Novak and Andrew Tomkins KDD '06: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, page611--617. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2006)

Norman L. Johnson and Samuel Kotz Wiley, New York, (1977)

P I Hurtado and J Marro and P L Garrido Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment2006(02):P02004(2006)

Jayanth R. Banavar and Francesca Colaiori and Alessandro Flammini and Amosd Maritan and Andreae Rinaldo Journal of Statistical Physics104(1):1-48(2001)

A. V. Goltsev and S. N. Dorogovtsev and J. F. F. Mendes Physical Review E(2006)

Jose Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin and Andrea Puglisi (2006)

Michael Mitzenmacher Internet Mathematics2(4):525-534(2006)

Michael Mitzenmacher submitted to Internet Mathematics(2004)

Michael Mitzenmacher Internet Mathematics1(2):226-251(2004)

R. Harald Baayen ACL, page271-278. (1991)

M.V. Simkin and V.P. Roychowdhury (2006)

C. Cattuto and V. Loreto and L. Pietronero (2006)