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Historical Development of The Concept of Life

The document discusses the historical development of concepts of life from ancient times to modern scientific theories. It describes early beliefs in spontaneous generation and divine creation, and later ideas of spontaneous origin from simple molecules and panspermia. The development of the concept that life comes from pre-existing life is also examined.

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Historical Development of The Concept of Life

The document discusses the historical development of concepts of life from ancient times to modern scientific theories. It describes early beliefs in spontaneous generation and divine creation, and later ideas of spontaneous origin from simple molecules and panspermia. The development of the concept that life comes from pre-existing life is also examined.

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HISTORICAL

DEVELOPMENT OF
THE CONCEPT OF LIFE
OBJECTIVES:
• Understand the different concepts of life base on scientific
evidence
• Explain how the historical development of the
concept of life
• Learner should be able to explain the importance and
difference concept of historical development of life
HISTORICAL
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
CONCEPT OF LIFE

Centuries ago, people were puzzled about how life began in Earth.
One belief that governed their way of thinking is that the theory of
spontaneous generation or abiogenesis
SPONTANEOUS
GENERATION
Is the idea that life could ABIOGENESIS
appear from nonliving
material. This thoughts or Is the belief that life
ideas was proposed by originates from pre-existing
Aristotle life
The historical development
of the ideas that life comes
from pre-existing life is
unquestionable. But
lingering question still
persist as to how did the
first living organism
developed on the planet.
life was also thought to
originate spontaneously
from nonliving matter
DIVINE CREATION
CREATIONISM (belief that Creationist believe that
life arose out of nothing but everything was made by God
the power of a divine being ) in a six-day period of creation

Life forms and everything in the


universe were created through a
supernatural power rather than
naturalistic means
SPONTANEOUS ORIGIN
• Some scientist believed that the first came from a spontaneous origin of life
evolved from inanimate matter

• Before life could evolve , simple molecules combined to form complex


ones.

• The energy that drove this chemical process may come from lighting or
same form of geothermal energy.
SPONTANEOUS ORIGIN
• Scientist also tried to explain where life molecules could have first
assembled such as in underwater volcanic vents, surface , of clay
sediments, deep in the Earth’s crust or under frozen oceans.

• Another hypothesis deals with the primodial soup that complex biological
compounds were randomly assembled by chance in an organic broth on
Earth’s early surface
Panspermia
Svante Arrhenius, Swedish scientist popularized the
concept or idea that life arose outside Earth and life
that forms were transported from another planet to
seed life on Earth

(PANSPERMIA) Proposes that a meteor,


which started the evolution of life
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