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However, no data cover the spatio-temporal patterns sufficiently to be truly informative. Metastatic cancer provides a unique in vivo model to study these processes through rapid somatic evolution. Here, we apply the high-resolution sampling technique (Dense 3D Crypt-scale Sampling) to analyze hundreds of spatially mapped micro-samples from the primary colorectal cancer and liver metastases in two representative cases. This would be analogous to recording the \u201cout-of-Africa\u201d events in two repeats. Our results support that liver metastases arise from polyphyletic and polyclonal seeding events where multiple, genetically distinct clones colonize a new site together. Following colonization, these multi-clonal populations can evolve into distinct spatial architectures: segregated territories formed by cells with low motility, or highly intermixed patterns driven by high motility. 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