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Note that I have deliberately avoided the word evolution. That word is often used to obfuscate and obscure the essential problem of self-assembly which applies to both living and nonliving things. People erroneously believe that living things have a greater power to self-assemble because of the theory of evolution.
In fact, evolution only says that certain morphologies (structures) will in the long term be more stable than others, and will survive at the expense of the less stable. But it says absolutely nothing how those structures came into being in the first place. In fact, from the point of view of chemistry, dirt (or plain carbon) is probably more stable than any organism, to begin with.
Self-assembly is an equally difficult problem for living or non-living things. Maybe more so for living things, since they are so much more complex.