3. © production and distribution of writing a few
hundred years ago, observations seemed to
indicate that some living things could just
suddenly appear: maggots showed up on meat;
mice were found on grain; and beetles turned
up on cow dung. those observations led to the
incorrect idea of spontaneous generation—the
notion that life could arise from nonliving mat-
ter. write a paragraph for a history magazine
evaluating the spontaneous generation hypoth-
esis. why did it seem logical at the time? what
evidence was overlooked or ignored?