No humans are superorganisms in the way insects are, but some insect species and most of humanity became economic superorganisms when they engaged agriculture.
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The term 'economic superorganism' is not to be interpreted as biological
for - definition - economic superorganism - The cohesive whole brought about by agriculture and the architecture that underlies it. Not to be interpreted as biological. - Used more in the sense of Henrich (economic superorganism) which refers to the structure and dynamic in cooperative material life particular to agriculture - NOT used in the strictly biological sense of E.O. Wilson, Holldobler
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SRC comment - This paper is so eloquently written! Reading it, one really senses the enormous impact that agriculture has had on the cultural evolution of our species, so much so that we think of it as natural and absolute, rather than relative. - We did not have to be on the cultural trajectory we are now on, all made possible through the dependency on agriculture, the culture of plants.
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