Thus wrote Charles Darwin on the twenty-second and twenty-fourth of October 1873.[1] At first reading this passage appears rather incongruous, but actually it reflects the true nature of the resurgence of evolution in the Nineteenth Century: but to see this, it behooves us to look back further in history; back to the root of evolution as an idea ...
May 9, 2014. Exothermic reactions are spontaneous because the product created by an exothermic reaction is the most stable product. Exothermic reactions release heat or energy. The more energy something has, the more unstable it will be. Therefore kinetics determines that the most stable product will dominate and as a result exothermic reactions are spontaneous to produce a stable product.
Spontaneous Generation. Spontaneous generation, also called abiogenesis, is the belief that some living things can arise suddenly, from inanimate matter, without the need for a living progenitor to give them life.