Maybe this can sort through terms for
prebiotic activity:

"Inheritance would therefore, at first, have been
mostly a matter of transmitting molecular 'things'
that permit survival, rather than transmitting
exact nucleic acid patterns that produce the "things"

"Unless we postulate an accident of immense
proportions and infinitely low probablility, selection
must have bridged the gap between chemical evolution
(changes in the composition of non reproductive or
poorly reproductive molecules, coacervates, 
microspheres, and so on) and biological evolution
(changes in inherited differences among reproductive
organisms). So far selecion is the only natural
mechanism we know that can account for the creative
changes among nonreproductive individuals that could
have led them in the direction of living organisms: 
from molecules" - to 'function" - to "message."
Although the events may be complex the device is
simple: organisms that react to their environment
with improved useful information replace those that
lack such information."

Quotes Evolution, Stricberger

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