article_snippet: In December 2014 scientists mimicked evolution in the laboratory for the first time using droplets of oil.
article_snippet: The researchers claim The researchers work proves that a non-biological system composed of chemicals can be made to evolve.
article_snippet: The findings mark an important step towards creating synthetic life and may also help scientists to explain how the first biological cells appeared on Earth more than 3.6 billion years ago.
article_snippet: Evolution was long believed to be a process that only biological creatures were capable of, but recent research aimed towards creating synthetic life has begun to question that idea.
article_snippet: But us know how evolution works and us can speed it up inside of a computer.