Fantastically Wrong: Why People Once Thought Mice Grew Out of Wheat and Sweaty Shirts

Our forebears couldn’t for the life of them figure out how maggots could just up and appear in a corpse, or how oysters just seemed to materialize in the sea. They had to have been spontaneously generating, no sex required.

















from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/3b26efe4/sc/36/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C0A60Cfantastically0Ewrong0Ehow0Eto0Egrow0Ea0Emouse0Eout0Eof0Ewheat0Eand0Esweaty0Eshirts0C/story01.htm

via Science News