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Definition of Superorganism
1. Noun. (biology) A social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that functions as if it were a single organism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superorganism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superorganism
Literary usage of Superorganism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin McAlester Anderson (1911)
"... man included, we ought not to be astonished, a •priori, that the collective
force which constitutes the social superorganism presents the same ..."
2. Sociology: Its Development and Applications by James Quayle Dealey (1920)
"... so that one gets the impression that society is an organism or a superorganism
very like a man, or, if not so high in the scale, then perhaps more like ..."
3. Essays in Socialism: New and Old by Ernest Belfort Bax (1906)
"... and in sociology the conception of Society as an organism, or better,
superorganism—the next creation in Nature after the animal body. ..."
4. Essays in Socialism: New and Old by Ernest Belfort Bax (1906)
"... and in sociology the conception of Society as an organism, or better,
superorganism—the next creation in Nature after the animal body. ..."
5. The Transition to an Objective Standard of Social Control by Luther Lee Bernard (1911)
"7 This modifying concept of the superorganism was later somewhat more extensively
developed at the expense of the biological analogy.8 Worms limits the term ..."
6. The Transition to an Objective Standard of Social Control by Luther Lee Bernard (1911)
"7 This modifying concept of the superorganism was later somewhat more extensively
developed at the expense of the biological analogy.8 Worms limits the term ..."
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