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'Homer Jacobson' was a professor at Brooklyn College, New York City.
In the 1950s he illustrated basic self-replication in artificial life with a model train set. A seed "organism" consisting of a "head" and "tail" boxcar could use the simple rules of the system to consistently create new "organisms" identical to itself, so long as there was a random pool of new boxcars to draw from.

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★ "Virustat, a Device for Continuous Production of Viruses," ''Applied Microbiology'', 14(6): 940–952 (1966 November) with Leslie S. Jacobson.

★ "The informational content of mechanisms and circuits," ''Information and Control'', 2(3):285-296, September 1959.

★ "On Models of Reproduction," ''American Scientist'' 46(1958):255-284.

★ "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life," ''American Scientist'', p. 125 (January 1955)

★ "The Informational Capacity of the Human Eye," ''Science'' 113:292-293 (March 16, 1951).

★ "The Informational Capacity of the Human Ear," ''Science'' 112:143-144 (August 4, 1950).

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★ Artificial life

★ Edward F. Moore