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Within such protected spaces, early chemical networks might have developed proto-metabolic activity and even basic self-replication, laying important groundwork for biological evolution.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

Depending on the initial placement of the constituent cells, their clusters can showcase surprisingly complex behaviors such as self-replication ad infinitum.

From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2023

But it stands out among the story’s other sentient entities in that it has extraordinary powers of self-reflection and self-replication.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2021

As an epidemiologist, he knew to look for three things before classing a disease as contagious; clustering, self-replication and epidemic waves.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2018

As interesting as this was, to the Pythagoreans the most important property of the pentagram was not in this self-replication but was hidden within the lines of the star.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife