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The emergence of living individuals would seem to have been synonymous with what is usually referred to as the origin of life. Experiments in the formation of protoorganisms suggest, however, that individuality can be identified for an even earlier molecular stage in immediate precursors of those first organisms. Those precursors, which avidly assemble to “laboratory protocells” in the presence of water, are known as proteinoids, or are indexed in Chemical Abstracts as thermal proteins.
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Fox, S.W., Nakashima, T. (1984). Endogenously Determined Variants as Precursors of Substrates for Natural Selection. In: Fox, S.W. (eds) Individuality and Determinism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9379-9_8
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