Abstract

Life continually arises spontaneously. A widespread belief from the time of the ancient Romans through and beyond the Middle Ages was that organic life routinely generates from non-life, such as when rats emerge from a heap of trash, amphibians appear each spring from swampy mud, or maggots swarm from rotting meat. This standard folklore is known as abiogenesis, or the origin of life via spontaneous generation.

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