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The Precellular, or Simple Interacting Systems, Level (Stage III)

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Although in certain aspects of the prebiotic synthesis and polymerization of life’s basic biochemical ingredients some problems still resist satisfactory solution, the number and diversity of procedures that have been successful promise that at least some portions of the theories proposed do approach reality. Nor should there be any real concern over which specific pathway was the one that had been followed exclusively on the primitive earth, for several, or even many, different processes may have been active during the billion or more years which the early stages seem to have occupied.

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