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spontaneous-generation
Status and infobox
- status:
—→ refuted - tier:
—→ V3 - kind:
—→ problem - year:
—→ -350 - statement:
—→ Does life arise routinely from non-living matter, as in maggots from meat?
Relations
- + related to origin-of-life: The original curation links this problem to The origin of life; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
Source +24 −0
+---
+title: Spontaneous generation
+kind: problem
+status: refuted
+tier: V3
+year: -350
+statement: Does life arise routinely from non-living matter, as in maggots from meat?
+space: origins-of-life
+---
+Pasteur's broth stayed sterile in flasks open to air through an S-shaped neck that trapped dust. The refutation of everyday spontaneous generation left the deeper origin-of-life question in place.
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+*Evidence tier V3 is the import default for a result the curation records as settled in the published record. No formal proof or certificate is attached to this page yet.*
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+Closed 1859–1862, Louis Pasteur's swan-neck flask experiments.
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+## Related problems
+
+- The original curation links this problem to [[related::Problem:origin-of-life|The origin of life]]; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Spontaneous generation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation)
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+[[Space:origins-of-life|Origins]] · [[Continent:life|Life]]
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Pasteur's broth stayed sterile in flasks open to air through an S-shaped neck that trapped dust. The refutation of everyday spontaneous generation left the deeper origin-of-life question in place.
Evidence tier V3 is the import default for a result the curation records as settled in the published record. No formal proof or certificate is attached to this page yet.
Closed 1859–1862, Louis Pasteur's swan-neck flask experiments.
Related problems
- The original curation links this problem to The origin of life; the argument for the link has not been written yet.