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Jan 23, 2023 11 min

Spontaneous Generation

from Planet Peterson

This is the first episode in a series about debunked scientific theories. Spontaneous generation was the idea that organisms can appear fully formed from various collections of matter. Where did this idea originate from, and how was it eventually overturned?

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