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).
