And of course that this is the key to the origins of life - how could we possibly make progress on this question without understanding this first?
And someone had to be the first to point this out. Which Tibor Gánti did in 1971 & 1974.
>Some consider this model a significant contribution to origin of life as it provides a philosophy of evolutionary units.[4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoton
Read the wiki. Its just describing what a cell is and putting the word "abstract" in front of everything. It makes no prediction, it produced no results. Evidently not everyone considers it a significant contribution.
And of course that this is the key to the origins of life - how could we possibly make progress on this question without understanding this first?
And someone had to be the first to point this out. Which Tibor Gánti did in 1971 & 1974.