Spontaneous Generation
From the seventeenth century, through the Middle Ages, and until the late nineteenth century, it was generally accepted that some organisms originated directly from nonliving ma...
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The Spontaneous-Generation Debate
Overview
According to the ancient theory of spontaneous generation, living organisms could originate from nonliving matter. During the seventeenth and eighteenth cent...
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Spontaneous Generation
Spontaneous generation, which is also called biopoesis or abiogenesis, is the process of living organisms arising de novo from non-living material. Until the nineteenth century,...
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Spontaneous Generation
Spontaneous generation, which is also called biopoesis or abiogenesis, is the process of living organisms arising de novo from non-living material. Until the nineteenth century,...
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Spontaneous Generation
Spontaneous generation refers to the idea that living creatures can arise from nonliving matter. Before microscopes enabled people to view forms of life too small to see with th...
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