0 the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance
One can go round making pleasant discoveries, which is surely the correct description of serendipity.
In all of these cases, the potential recipient has a genetic relationship to the donor (in one respect by reproductive biology; in another respect by serendipity).
Jackson seems to have followed a mixture of the serendipity approach and a search for particularly engaging or remarkable individuals.
This paper therefore is a typical piece of archaeological serendipity, and does not result from a research design, or sustained programme of investigation on iron age food consumption.
Secondly, words such as ' good luck ' and ' serendipity ' will be far more useful if we avoid extending ' miracle ' to cover their instances and so will the word ' miracle ' itself.
This occurs through understanding of the basic mechanisms of drug response, serendipity or systematic genome-wide screening.
We would prefer considered (but unconstrained) human intervention, serendipity, and chance to play a larger part.
However, as it is now, we often only hear about the implementation or impact of research by serendipity and not by systematic effort (3).
