The currently smallest self-replicating life form is a battle-hardened descendant of billions of years of attack by hostile lifeforms that have been actively trying to eat its ancestors. I would expect the task of surviving that (and the corresponding structure) to be much more complex than anything that developed during the process of abiogenesis.
The currently smallest self-replicating life form is a battle-hardened descendant of billions of years of attack by hostile lifeforms that have been actively trying to eat its ancestors. I would expect the task of surviving that (and the corresponding structure) to be much more complex than anything that developed during the process of abiogenesis.