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Within the next century we will likely witness the introduction on earth of living organisms originally designed in large part by humans, but with the capability to reproduce and evolve just as natural organisms do.
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Taylor, T., Dorin, A. (2020). Self-Reproducing Machines: The Evolution of an Idea. In: Rise of the Self-Replicators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48234-3_1
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