- reproducing by fission.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fissiparous)
"According to Haudenosaunee tradition, the alliance was founded centuries before Europeans arrived. Non-Indian researchers long treated this claim to antiquity with skepticism. The league, in their view, was inherently fragile and fissiparous; if it had been founded a thousand years ago, it would have broken up well before the Pilgrims."
- Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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