replicative drift
Names: replicative driftdrift
First appears in Book 4: Heaven’s River, chapter 1 (1. Frenemies)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
What you know
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 2Marvin says replicative drift is accelerating at fifteen to twenty generations, with some clones going in completely new directions.
- Ch 39One theory holds replicative drift results from the No-Cloning Theorem, which would also imply a No-Deletions principle and possibly life after death.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 2Replicative drift has reached the point where Bobs can no longer automatically trust other Bobs.