Managing to evolve self-replicating programs from random starting points is a great achievement... This is definitely a great step towards understanding potential routes to the origin of life, here in a medium quite removed from the standard 'wetware' of biology.
Life on Earth likely began in a 'primordial soup'... Physics occurred, and it just occurred a lot over a very long time, and it gave rise to some very complicated things.
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