DOES LIFE COME FROM NON-LIVING THINGS?

The ancient Greeks believed living things could spontaneously come into being from non-living matter but later arguments refuted this theory completely, leading to a series of experiments, observations and counter observations. The book is a stimulating blow-by-blow account of this controversy between spontaneous generation and biogenesis of animals which led to the ultimate triumph of science over superstition and finally paved the way for the foundation of modern medicine.