Disagree. Devolution was being discussed by many, most prominently Thomas Wictor. Patel Patriot just did an awesome job of sorting wheat from chaff, and summarizing it. Kind of like the majic 12 autist that linked the law of war manual with brilliant correlations to Q. Difference is that Patel Patriot is less of a nerd, so his additional ramblings have been popular, whereas Majic 12 guy disappeared into hermit-like obscurity (kinda like Wictor, too). Patel was kind of like Apple, not inventing anything, but translating the work and making it easy-to-use and pass around. After he published and got it right, everybody else stopped trying to explain and said "it's Devolution; check out Patel Patriot."