Spontaneous generation is a superseded scientific theory that held that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that such processes were...

bacterial peritonitis Spontaneous combustion Spontaneous declaration Spontaneous emission Spontaneous fission Spontaneous generation Spontaneous human combustion...

leucopsis, were thought to have developed from this crustacean through spontaneous generation, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe, hence the...

research on biogenesis paved the way for the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, a prevailing idea at the time that organisms develop from inanimate...

development of the germ theory of disease, which put the concept of spontaneous generation to rest. Although the fermentation process had been used extensively...

Leeuwenhoek). Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation. Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, his experiment...

parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies. Having a...

dust or the supposed seasonal generation of mice and insects from mud or garbage. The theory of spontaneous generation was proposed by Aristotle, who...

that spontaneous generation had been effectively disproven. Pasteur remarked, about an 1864 finding of his, "Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation...

the origin of life, from Aristotle until the 19th century, is of spontaneous generation. This theory held that "lower" animals such as insects were generated...