It is the movement that creates the form. - Nick Lane

The only way that you can really get a selfish replicator to be unselfish is to put it in a bag with a bunch of other selfish replicators, and then they're more or less obliged to cooperate.

Now it's possible to have some kind of protocell with some form of metabolism without any genetic heredity. It's possible in principle. Is it alive?

The s were acquired by a eukaryotic cell that was already a fully fledged eukaryotic cell.