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I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website 8 months agoThe most interesting thing to me is both quoted descriptions talk of vermin and worms “springing forth” from the excrement. It was once thought that things like worms, insects, even mice and rats, would just spawn from various kinds of filth.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I learned this as spontaneous generation, the obsolete theory that life could appear directly from things that are not alive.