Add spaces between the words in the following text: ...amorelikelyexplanationseemstobesimplythatThaleshappenedtobethesavantaroundatthetimewhenthisstrikingastronomicalphenomenonoccurredandtheassumptionwasmadethatasasavanthemusthavebeenabletopredictit.
... a more likely explanation seems to be simply that Thales happened to be the savant around at the time when this striking astronomical phenomenon occurred and the assumption was made that as a savant he must have been able to predict it.