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Municipal DarwinismMunicipal Darwinism is a concept first described in Philip Reeve's novel, Mortal Engines, which refers to the practise in the post-apocalyptic future described therein, in which large mobile metropolitan areas, known as Traction Cities, consume one another by gathering the prey in large hydraulic jaws. Captured cities are melted or salvaged for parts, while their citizens often become slaves serving in the engine compartments of the predator city. Often technology or goods of value are looted as well. The larger cities consume smaller townships, which consume stationary settlements. Municipal Darwinism is opposed by such groups as the Anti-Traction League, which see Traction Cities as obstacles that hinder the recovery of the Earth to its natural state and view their citizens as barbaric.
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