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- The emergence of the first organisms
When in the world are having such proteinaceous materials, began a new stage in the development of matter - the transition from organic compounds to living beings. First organic substances were in the seas and oceans in the form of solutions. They did not have any structure, any structure. However, when solutions of proteins or other similar organic compounds are mixed together, the solutions are distinguished from special semisolid, gelatinous formation - coacervates. For example, if clear solutions are mixed ovalbumin and gelatin, they fouled and microscopically distinguishable in their floating in the water droplets are small sharply defined. This is the coacervates. They are all concentrated in a solution of protein substances.
composition and internal structure of the droplets is faster and begins to dominate.
Let us imagine that at some point the primary ocean mixed solution proteinaceous materials formed coacervate droplets. They do not float in clean water and in a solution of various substances. Droplets caught these substances and grow at their expense.
The growth rate of individual droplets varies. It depends on the internal structure of each of them.
If the droplet is dominated by the processes of decomposition, it soon disintegrates. Substance, its components go into solution and absorbed by other droplets. More or less long-term there will be only those droplets in which the processes of creation prevail over the processes of decay.
Thus, all arising accidentally, so to say "bad" forms of organizing themselves falling out of the process of further evolution of matter.
Each individual droplet can not grow indefinitely as a solid mass - it breaks up into droplets subsidiaries. But every drop at the same time something different from their "sisters" and separated from the others, growing and changing yourself. The new generation of poorly organized droplets all die, decompose, and the most advanced participate in the further evolution of matter. So in the process of life is a kind of natural selection coacervate droplets. Coacervates growth gradually accelerated. Number of organized matter on the surface of the Earth has increased, complicated by his organization.
Ultimately improvement coacervates led to a new form of existence of matter - to the emergence of the simplest in the world of living beings.