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self-reproductionSelbstreproduktion (ger.)

  • 1) The constructive metabolism consisting in permanent exchange of the substances of the body.
    metabolism
    1799

    Die Erregbarkeit des Organismus stellt sich in der Außenwelt dar, als eine beständige Selbstreproduction. Dadurch eben unterscheidet sich das Organische vom Todten, daß das Bestehen des erstern nicht ein wirkliches Seyn, sondern ein beständiges Reproducirtwerden (durch sich selbst) ist

    Schelling, F.W.J. (1799). Erster Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie für Vorlesungen (AA vol. I, 7): 172.

    1916
    An attribute of living organisms, which fundamentally differentiates them from non-living matter, is the faculty of self-reproduction
    Pearl, R. (1916). The animal-breeding industry. Sci. Monthl. 3, 23-30: 23.
    1918
    self-reproduction and self-maintenance of an organism
    Haldane, J.S. (1918). Symposium: Are physical, biological and psychological categories irreducible? Proc. Arist. Soc. (Suppl.) 1, 11-28: 16.
    1935
    self-reproduction [of genes]
    Demerec, M. (1935). Role of genes in evolution. Amer. Nat. 69, 125-138: 128; cf. Caspersson, T. & Schultz, J. (1938). Nucleic acid metabolism of the chromosomes in relation to gene reproduction. Nature 142, 294-295: 295.
    1936
    The prime mover of population growth is self-reproduction, a fundamental biological attribute or capacity of all living things, not shared by non-living matter. The biological mechanisms of reproduction differ considerably in detail from species to species, though basically they are the same in principle throughout the living world
    Pearl, R. (1936). Biological factors in fertility. Ann. Amer. Acad. Pol. Soc. Sci. 188, 14-25: 14.
    1994
    Leben heißt Metabolismus: ständige Selbstreproduktion
    Penzlin, H. (1994). „Leben“ – was heißt das? Biologen in unserer Zeit 6/94 (Nr. 415), 81-86: 82.
  • 2) Reproduction, the production by living organisms of new individuals or offspring.  
    reproduction
    1820
    the great powers of self-continuance, and self-reproduction, with which it [i.e. life] is every where accompanied
    Anonymus (1820).On the study of natural history. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 7, 618-621: 621; cf. Huxley, J.S. (1926). Essays of a Biologist: 256; Oparin, A.I. (1924). Proiskhozdenie zhizny (engl. The Origin of Life. In: Bernal, J.D. (1967). The Origin of Life, 199-234): 214.
    1936
    The prime mover of population growth is self-reproduction, a fundamental biological attribute or capacity of all living things, not shared by non-living matter 
    Pearl, R. (1936). Biological factors in fertility. Ann. Amer. Acad. Pol. Soc. Sci. 188, 14-25: 14.