Another popular theory of the time was spontaneous generation – the idea, dating back to Aristotle, that living things could arise from inanimate material. Pasteur showed that if air was ...
The theory of spontaneous generation, for many years scorned by most scientists, received an unexpected revival last week from George Wald, professor of Biology, at the recent meeting of the ...
no - not that kind… and the theory of spontaneous generation,- which stated that life basically arose from, erm, nothing. These views started to change when two mighty microbiologists ...