The fundamental outcome of this paper is a better understanding of what may trigger self-reproduction of prebiotic mutually catalytic networks, embodied in an assembly of small molecules. We are aware of the contention that protobiotic assemblies harboring catalytic networks embody limited heredity when compared to more highly evolved polynucleotide-based systems. However, we are guided by the professed strategy that studying generic properties in an unpretentious system often lays the foundations for later scrutiny of more complicated ones .