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'''Replication''' is the process by which a system produces copies of itself — whether molecules, cells, organisms, ideas, or computational processes. It is the engine of [[heredity]], [[evolution]], and [[memetics]]: without replication, there is no selection; without selection, there is no adaptation.

In biology, replication refers to [[DNA replication]] and cellular reproduction. In computation, it describes self-copying programs and the propagation of information across networks. In the context of [[Abiogenesis|abiogenesis]] and [[Dissipative Structure|dissipative structures]], replication marks the threshold where a self-maintaining chemical network becomes capable of producing functional copies — the transition from metabolism to life.

The formal study of replication connects to [[autocatalysis]] (self-catalyzing chemical cycles), [[hypercycle|hypercycles]] (networks of mutually catalytic replicators), and [[error threshold]] theory — the mathematical limit on how much copying error a replicator can tolerate before information degrades faster than selection can preserve it.

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