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Pre-biotic evolution is a term that is sometimes used to indicate the processes that lead to the emergence of life on Earth. To be sure, these processes have nothing to do with Darwin's theory of evolution, although the principle of differential reproductive success may have played a role in abiogenesis as well as in evolution.

The stages in the origin of life from purely mineral conditions to the presence organic chemistry has large holes in it. They can postulate on how simple amino acids were formed and even water filled micro-cells with lipid membranes were created from primordial conditions BUT to get replicating RNA there is an unfathomable problem of creating replicating enzymes etc etc etc.

To bridge this gap several pre-biotic steps have been imagined. Some involve exotic minerals that can provided chemically active substrates on which more familiar bio-chemistry can occure. So, supposidly, there was a time that 'life' involved a whole set of elements and chemicals that have now been dropped from from what we consider organic chemistry.

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