[Anabiosis and the problem of the development of life].

In passing to anabiosis the organisms can be dried down to a very low residual water content without losing their viability. On the base of this fact a conclusion is drawn that life-capable structures in their construction either do not imply water or imply it in an insignificant quantity. This is in agreement with the concept of initial formation of waterless "termal proteinoids" which can be considered as precursors of primitive life capable structures which later pass to functioning in interaction with water.