Naturalist who defended spontaneous generation, using the term heterogenesis for the origin of living forms from nonliving organic material. His experiments and interpretations belonged to the nineteenth-century controversy over whether growth in preparations required pre-existing organisms.[ref]
Hétérogénie by Félix Archimède Pouchet. 1859, statement of the hypothesis
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The naturalist and publisher who wrote Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers.
Portrait of Robert Chambers
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