The term replicator, originally introduced by Dawkins but since modified by Hull, is used to refer to any entity of which copies are made. From Wordnik.com. [Units and Levels of Selection] Reference
The terms replicator and interactor will be used in Hull's sense in the rest of this entry. From Wordnik.com. [Units and Levels of Selection] Reference
The replicator is a great idea; unfortunately, it's a long way off. From Wordnik.com. [When You Can Really Make A Silk Purse From A Sow] Reference
Thus, the replicator is the unit of selection, because it is the beneficiary, and the real owner of all adaptations that exist. From Wordnik.com. [Units and Levels of Selection] Reference
A replicator is a piece of coded information that makes exact copies of itself, along with occasional inexact copies or 'mutations'. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
Getting a new replicator is dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
A self-replicator is not a "true genome". From Wordnik.com. [Adjusting Pre-configuration to Design Outcomes] Reference
I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. From Wordnik.com. [In the news cycle, memes spread more like a heartbeat than a virus » Nieman Journalism Lab] Reference
Second, they've initiated a volunteer "replicator" program so villagers can learn to launch even more groups on their own. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Skees: Africa's Poorest Women Can Teach Us How to Manage Our Money] Reference
Star Trek inventions What would you want to use a "replicator" for?. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
"Somebody on the station brought their own replicator?". From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
"A cat-food replicator would have been nice," Becker said. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Rebels]
"A replicator or arranger very much like deoxyribonucleic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Lensman]
To them I look like one more node in the replicator network. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
The Diamond Age - It's essentially the same as the replicator from. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
If they want a banana they simply photocopy one on the replicator. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
Which meant that more than one replicator colony had grown to maturity. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Then he replaced the bulkhead plate that covered the replicator circuitry. From Wordnik.com. [Day of Honor]
But I decided not to announce my intention until after the replicator launch. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
While a uterine replicator might not solve the entire problem, it would help. From Wordnik.com. [Should She or Shouldn’t She?] Reference
A demitasse cup appeared in the replicator, filled with steaming black liquid. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Of Air And Darkness]
Vaughn peered at the markings, and saw that it con-tained a replicator pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Of Air And Darkness]
"Two tables, several chairs, and a replicator," the security officer enumerated. From Wordnik.com. [Addicts] Reference
Offering her a seat, he went over to the replicator unit built into the bulkhead. From Wordnik.com. [Addicts] Reference
At the end, we saw (what I am assuming is) a replicator that looks like Elizabeth. From Wordnik.com. [chsturtle Diary Entry] Reference
We found complete specifications in Tech Memory, and fed them into the replicator. From Wordnik.com. [The Songs of Distant Earth]
Rising, she picked up her cup and saucer and returned them to the replicator slot. From Wordnik.com. [Addicts] Reference
The terrestrial replicator colony, blind and incapable of fleeing, is promptly eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
I heard most of the replicator news from Jase a couple of days before it broke in the media. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
We thought we'd be able to make more meaningful comparisons as the replicator network expanded. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
"I know the largest size that replicator can print," he said, shrugging off her implied compliment. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Pern, First Fall]
By comparison with the terraforming effort of previous years, the replicator launch was anticlimactic. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
The first positive results from the replicator project had been in for half a year when the flickers began. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
As the replicator colonies aged, their growth rate slowed but their functions became more refined and purposeful. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
I was explaining that those models of group selection that had been proposed were vehicle models not replicator models. From Wordnik.com. [David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XI: Dawkins Protests (Too Much)] Reference
She was flying in a ship around the debri of the replicator planet with (what I am again assuming were) other replicators. From Wordnik.com. [chsturtle Diary Entry] Reference
Gretchen looks truly unpleased that someone other than herself won and tells the camera he's a replicator, not a visionary. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 4, "Hats Off To You"] Reference
It adopts from these what it considers potentially valuable; then it reorganizes and exploits the replicator colony for its own purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
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