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- adjective Before the start of
life
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Examples
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Here Darwin is talking about a scenario that I will return to in detail in chapter 6, where I consider the struggle between what I call prelife and life itself.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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By our calculations, only when conditions arise that tip the rate of replication over a certain threshold would prelife be overwhelmed by replicating strings.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Instead, I could see a gentle transition, a smeared boundary between chemistry and biochemistry, between “prelife” and life.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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In this way, we can ask about the precise conditions for life to emerge out of prelife.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Within the chemistry of prelife, there were opportunities for cooperation.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The existence of cooperating pairs of molecules in prelife is very plausible.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The replicating strings could eat up the basic units faster than the nonreplicating strings, so there is competition between prelife and life itself.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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In this way, life is an infection of prelife, one that eventually destroys its molecular ancestor.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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I could also envisage how two complementary prelife sequences could have catalyzed reactions which built each other.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The richer prelife became, the more likely it was that an outbreak of life would take hold.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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