Featherstonehaugh . Was told in school it is pronounced Fenshaw . <| sep |> rPCMasterraceBuilds was made exactly for this reason , always get an answer from dedicated builders . If you have any problems feel free to post it there too . <| sep |> Did the Evocati didn ' t leaked anything or did CIG decided to go directly to PTU ? <| sep |> Do you have to be subbed to thedonald to be truly alt right ? Idek He supported Clinton in 2008 and has since completely converted in attitude , he ' s mostly antiestablishment and big gov we don ' t disagree there <| sep |> You finished your quote with a comma , making me suspect that there ' s more to it . I checked and indeed , that ' s the case . A functioning cell must be entirely correct at once , in all its complexity , we are now closer to building a synthetic cell than anyone ever before us . Huck is a scientist working on constructing an artificial cell . Basically building the factory from scratch . It doesn ' t apply to this discussion because the cell in question is being built , not evolving . Anyway , if you want an example of one possible precursor to the cell , look no further than the appropriately named These are formed when lipids fats and oils in water form into small bubbles . They aren ' t alive , but they display some of the traits of life . Such as the ability to grow via collecting more lipid molecules and reproduction when they ' re sheared in half by water movement . Another possible precursor is RNA , as others have mentioned . RNA is a simpler , singlestranded version of DNA that ' s capable of functioning as both genetic material and as an enzyme to facilitate making copies of itself . It ' s also not alive by the way we define life but multiplies and has a system of heredity . While there ' s still many competing theories , some believe that the first structure that we ' d recognize as a living cell occurred when an selfreplicating RNA strand ended up inside a protocell . Both components are nonliving and capable of forming via simple chemistry . But together they become a something that ' s extremely close to what we ' d define as life . Capable of descent with modification , which is all that we need for natural selection to take over . RNA inside a membrane would be kept safer from the environment and so as it kept reproducing , natural selection would pick those RNA variants that helped keep the membrane together and facilitated further reproduction .