Origin of life: Did Darwinian evolution begin before life itself?
@kravietz
I believe this hypothesis was put forth by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. Makes sense to me.
@cjd @kravietz skeptical of this. Not sure much time his book spends on RNA world, and the idea of an RNA world is pretty old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world#History oldest mention from 1962. Seems likely they were thinking RNA sequences(/complexes) evolved.
@kravietz
Yup, that was my interpretation of it too, pretty cool.