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spontaneous-generation

Revision 151 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/07-life.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 151 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/07-life.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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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.

  • The original curation links this problem to The origin of life; the argument for the link has not been written yet.

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Origins · Life