Consciousness In The Cell

In the 19th century, when the theory of evolution was put forward, the level of science and technology was rather primitive. This led the theory’s supporters to maintain that living organisms had a fundamentally simple structure. For example, Ernst Haeckel, Darwin’s greatest supporter, believed that a cell was a "simple little lump of albuminous combination of carbon," not much different from a piece of microscopic jello. Authors of the theory believed that because life was made up of very simple structures, it could come about by itself, randomly. But they were wrong, of course...