The Single Theory That Could Explain How Life Developed

One of life's greatest puzzles is life itself. How did it start? How did it organize itself and evolve from single celled organisms and on to humanity and all the other creatures in our world?

This article posted on the MIT Technology Review website posits that the action of autocatalytic sets is the motive force behind the mystery,

I have often wondered whether the formation of life (and everything else in our universe) was governed by some inherent and inexorable force. This theory gives some support to that notion.