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Scheme showing the main evolutionary transitions proposed for prebiotic chemistry and the overall process of origins of life. The notion of protocell populations employed here is remarkably wide, understood as heterogeneous, compartmented and functionally integrated assemblies of molecules that could implement, in successive stages, the different processes, capacities and mechanisms shown at the lower part of the figure.
