abiogenesis
autogenesis
autogeny
spontaneous generation

Rather he believed that simple forms of life were created continuously by spontaneous generation.

"Sometimes people think we are products of spontaneous generation," he said.

From this he concluded that spontaneous generation is not a plausible theory.

I don't know whether or not spontaneous generation is actually possible, and I can live without having an answer.

Browne was among the first people to question the notion of spontaneous generation.

The jam version is a bit less targeted in terms of spontaneous generation, and takes longer too.

This nonlinearity can lead to the spontaneous generation of order.

The first life, he taught, was formed by spontaneous generation in the mud.

At that time, various fungi were still considered to arise through spontaneous generation.

It was widely believed that they were born of supposed spontaneous generation or came from within the body, he said.