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Definition of Superorganisms
1. superorganism [n] - See also: superorganism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superorganisms
Literary usage of Superorganisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aryan Household: Its Structure and Its Development : an Introduction to by William Edward Hearn (1891)
"superorganisms have their perils not less than the organisms of which they are
composed; and the apparent waste of vegetal and animal life finds its ..."
2. Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies by Takashi Inoguchi, Edward Newman, Glen Paoletto (1999)
"7. One World. ''Cities: London's Footprint." Internet document on the World Wide
Web. <http://www.oneworld.org/guides/thecity/superorganisms ..."
3. The Moral Universeby Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones by Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones (2001)
"The beehive and the ants' nest have long been considered 'superorganisms', but
this was little more than a metaphor until recently. Applied to the brain, ..."
4. Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World? by Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, Paul Skidmore (2004)
"... an expert in the behaviour of ants.11 Wheeler called insect
colonies 'superorganisms' and defined the ability of the hive to accomplish tasks
that no ..."
5. Forest Health in the Inland West: A Symposium by David L. Adams, Lyn Morelan (1995)
"One of the extreme proponents of this view, Clements, discussed ecosystems
as "superorganisms," whose parts had evolved as a unit and were so intertwined ..."
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