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Research in the field of evolutionary and theoretical biology shows that when explaining evolutionary events, we are not satisfied with one well-known level of description. Natural selection, mutation and other evolutionary mechanisms served life as necessary tools, but evolution on Earth also included one more, at first glance, non-obvious process. Experiments with "artificial life" in the computer show this eloquently. Various attempts have implemented almost every conceivable evolutionary mechanism and demonstrated the evolution of organisms, but so far they have not resulted in the differentiation of life with the open end so typical of terrestrial evolution. Artificial systems did not have sufficient evolvability. What characterizes such evolvability? How did life on Earth develop it? Can we ever imitate her? And did "non-living organisms" live once? These are just some of the topics we will cover in the lecture. Jan Toman is a post-doc at the Department of Philosophy and History of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. It focuses mainly on the problems of evolutionary and theoretical biology, especially the theory of frozen evolution and other modern approaches in evolutionary biology. He is the author of the monograph Sexual reproduction through the lens of evolution, which was published by the Academia publishing house in early 2015.