The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
That was an interesting but not too easy read about evolution. Here are some exciting details…
How Did Life Come Into Existence?
There was water, carbon dioxide, methane, and ammoniac on earth. By adding energy from the sun and thunder storms, more complicated molecules like amino acid were formed. Those are the building blocks of proteins. Coincidental at one point in time some remarkable molecules came to existence. They had the ability to copy themselves: Replicators. I imagine this copying process like this: A replicator attracts other molecules until two identical replicators are next to each other. Then they part. Of course this process isn’t perfect so mistakes occur during copying.
