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Ridiculous History

Spontaneous Generation, Part Two: "Broth Science"

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Who could have guessed a series of broth experiments revolutionized humanity's understanding of life? Spoiler, not us. In part two of this week's two part episode, Ben, Noel and Max continue their exploration of the once widely-accepted concept of spontaneous generation: the idea that certain nonliving objects could, for one reason or another, suddenly produce living things.

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0:00.0

Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for

0:31.6

tuning in. Let's hear it for the man the myth the legend

0:35.2

spontaneously generated or so he says our super producer mr max Williams

0:42.4

hello I'm here and I grew out of cheese and bagels.

0:47.0

That's very true.

0:48.0

I mean they definitely, they created the circumstances in which for you to thrive.

0:53.4

That's also true.

0:54.4

Mm-hmm. And speaking of thriving circumstances, folks, I am over the Lamarckian moon to introduce you to the one the only

1:04.4

the only mr. Noel Brown Noel how's it going it's going my friend is going in a forward

1:10.2

direction it's about all we can hope for.

1:14.0

And for the record, I am still going by Ben Boland.

1:18.0

Indeed, and we are picking up where we left off on the topic of spontaneous generation courtesy of our

1:25.0

research associate extraordinary Dr. Z for a quick little recap previously on

1:31.5

ridiculous history we left off introducing a new character

1:34.7

to our, not really a rogues gallery, what's the opposite?

1:37.8

They're all stand-up individuals.

1:40.4

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his theory that was beginning to approach what we know as the kind of modern theory of evolution.

1:47.5

He was from the school of thought that led to individuals like Charles Darwin with his insatiable appetite for all of God's

1:56.5

creatures.

1:57.5

And he also was referencing quite a bit, Aristotle's Scala Naturi, Aristotle being one of the first characters that we introduced in his, you know, kind of belief, largely in the concept of life being generated from non-living things, but we also mentioned

2:14.7

that Aristotle also did understand as much as was possible the idea that life

2:20.4

generated from sexual reproduction.

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