Comments on: Book review – Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation/2017/12/11/book-review-creatures-born-of-mud-and-slime-the-wonder-and-complexity-of-spontaneous-generation/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:37:56 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/11/book-review-creatures-born-of-mud-and-slime-the-wonder-and-complexity-of-spontaneous-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-23771Fri, 06 Aug 2021 10:44:55 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1364#comment-23771[…] before it was conceived of. (On a side-note, this seems to harken back to the now obsolete idea of spontaneous generation; the two are similar, but not the same.) What The Genesis Quest shows is a research community that […]

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]]>By: Book review – Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/11/book-review-creatures-born-of-mud-and-slime-the-wonder-and-complexity-of-spontaneous-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-2421Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:05:38 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1364#comment-2421[…] history of microbiology covering the fall from grace of spontaneous generation (see my review of Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation) and the rise of germ theory. Ingraham then centres his narrative on the Tree of Life that was […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (50th Anniversary Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/11/book-review-creatures-born-of-mud-and-slime-the-wonder-and-complexity-of-spontaneous-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-2107Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:54:25 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1364#comment-2107[…] this book somewhat sceptical. Take for example the idea of spontaneous generation (see my review of Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation), this was a fully-fledged, well-reasoned idea that saw various explanations over time. It took […]

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]]>By: Book review – How Scientific Progress Occurs: Incrementalism and the Life Sciences | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/11/book-review-creatures-born-of-mud-and-slime-the-wonder-and-complexity-of-spontaneous-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-1594Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:07:24 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1364#comment-1594[…] this book somewhat sceptical. Take for example the idea of spontaneous generation (see my review of Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation), this was a fully-fledged, well-reasoned idea that saw various explanations over time. It took […]

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