Comment on Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup
Yes and it also reminds me of one of my favorite books, Andreas Wagner's "Arrival Of the Fittest" and, connected, the Miller-Urey experiment of course.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20821275-arrival-of-t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment