Name: _____________________________ Date:_________________

Early Theories of Evolution The Meeting of Minds Class Notes

Spontaneous generation:
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Name of Key Experiments Support/disprov Name and

theorist ideas/beliefs performed e spontaneous description of
generation theory that wa
(i.e. animals developed (if
studied, applicable)
equipment
used)
Jan Baptista van
Helmont

Francesco Redi

Louis Pasteur

Jean Baptiste-
Lamack

Charles Darwin