The Vital question doesn't delve into the DNA replication part of it as far as I remember. It focuses more on the initial conditions needed for the living cell

The Vital question doesn't delve into the DNA replication part of it as far as I remember. It focuses more on the initial conditions needed for the living cell machinery to bootstrap, and the physical constraints that are necessary or need to be overcome to achieve life, and kind of glosses over the genetics part. I myself wondered about this after reading the book, and the best resource I could find was this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/