The idea that maggots were
produce by rotting meat is an example of spontaneous generation.
Spontaneous Generation is an old fashioned thought about the formation of
a living organism without descent from similar organism. They thought that
maggots could be produce from the body of dead fish or a flea could arise
from a dust. This idea was coherently synthesized by Aristotle. He
expanded the work about the appearance of organism. According to his
theory, Living things comes from nonliving things because they contains
Pneuma.
