"Life is Life", how true!

But honestly, also Stanislaw Lem has already written decades ago about what he even called the "dead" evolution. Evolution in non-living entities, just purely based on survival and selection. In "Der Unbesiegbare" he detailed how an unorganic evolution brought up small entities that could coorporate like a swarm of little insects and together form larger unities.
We need to look more often to science fiction, many things were described already there and the regular science found out about it many years later only.