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They may also multiply by a process of self-division.

From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2021

Is all the writhing and the agony, all the violent self-division, the schizophrenia of an old self dying, a new self being born?

From Time Magazine Archive

It is characteristic of this group of organic forms that multiplication by self-division is the common and continuous method of increase.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

Clark, who has especially attended to this subject, shows in detail that there is sometimes "a compromise between self-division and budding."

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Clark shows in detail that there is sometimes "a compromise between self-division and budding."

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles