ORIGINS OF LIFE

  • Creationist
    900 BCE

    Creationist

    God created everything.
  • Spontaneous Generation
    350 BCE

    Spontaneous Generation

    This theory comes from the Greeks, especially Aristotle, is the thought on the ordinary formation of living organisms without descent from similar organisms.
  • Biogenesis

    Biogenesis

    Francesco Redi, an italian scientist proposed an alternative for the Spontaneous Generation.
  • Change through use and disuse: Lamarck

    Change through use and disuse: Lamarck

    When environments changed, organisms had to change their behavior to survive. If they began to use an organ more than they had in the past, it would increase in its lifetime. If a giraffe stretched its neck for leaves, for example, a "nervous fluid" would flow into its neck and make it longer.
  • The theory of evolution by natural selection: Darwin

    The theory of evolution by natural selection: Darwin

    Organisms change over time as a result of changes in physical or behavioral traits. Changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment and will help it survive.
  • Endosymbiotic

    Endosymbiotic

    Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski said that larger, more complex cells evolved from the symbiotic relationship between less complex ones.
  • Panspermia

    Panspermia

    Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius specified that can be said to be either interstellar or interplanetary transport mechanisms may include comets, radiation pressure and lithopanspermia (microorganisms embedded in rocks).
  • Physical-Chemical

    Physical-Chemical

    Alexander I. Oparin was a Soviet biochemist that talked about organisms created in a primitive atmosphere.
  • CONCLUSION

    My point of view of all of this theories is that with the time, and the creation of new technologies, scientists have been developing more complex proposals of the origin of life. And I also think that this chain of development will continue for the next years, always finding new things that will bring more and more questions.