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During the winter semester 1865/66 the German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) proposed in his lectures on Darwinism and evolutionary sequence in order to explain the origin of the first cells by self-assembly and selection. These lectures were published in 1868 (Haeckel, 1868). Haeckel’s pioneering ideas constituted a departure from the then prevailing view that the origin of life could not be a subject of scientific research.
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Dose, K. (1984). Molecular Evolution and Protobiology: An Overview. In: Matsuno, K., Dose, K., Harada, K., Rohlfing, D.L. (eds) Molecular Evolution and Protobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4640-1_1
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