foregoing account embraces an enthusiasm for replication (and variation and Darwinian selection, as iyts automatic consequences), metabolism, and individuation (cellurazionzion,), integrating them into one accout that considers them all to be essential.

Reading:
„The origin and early evolution of life: Prebiotic chemistry, the preRNA world and time” Antonio Lazcano and Stanley L. Miller.
Cell 85: 793-798 (1996).
A broad but brief of work on origins, with many useful references, told in Stanley Miller’s inimitable voice, now stilled.