Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man was a supposed "missing link" between apes and humans, announced in 1912 from fossil fragments found in England. For decades it misled…
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Vitalism
Vitalism was the long held belief that living things contain a special, non physical "vital force" or "life energy" that animates them and that…
Lamarckism
Lamarckism is the discredited idea that organisms can pass on to their offspring the characteristics they acquire during their lifetime. Its classic…
Spontaneous Generation
Spontaneous generation was the long held belief that living organisms could arise directly from non living matter. People thought maggots formed from…