Self-Deception. If self-protectively you minimize ... are is essential in promoting your healthy evolution.

To name a few: the possible operation of self-organising principles; how the evolution of an organism can depend on its innovative behaviour; and "top-down causation" through flow of information ...

but does evolution act on non-living materials as well? In a paper, titled "Competitive exclusion among self-replicating molecules curtails the tendency of chemistry to diversify" published in ...

but does evolution act on non-living materials as well? Otto and his team used a system of three different self-replicating molecules, that, under the right conditions, grow and divide spontaneously.