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Cities are not alive: they cannot propagate themselves, and can only exist as the product of something that does.

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  1. Nick Lane

    Biochemist at University College London

    And cities and all these other forms that look alive and could be described as alive, because they can’t propagate themselves can only exist as the product of something that did propagate itself.

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