Table of Contents 



Introduction 3 



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I Pre-organic Evolution and the Problem of Or- 

 ganization OF Matter 12 

 Entropy and Extropy 16 

 Crystals and Colloids 19 



II The Most Primitive Forms of Life 21 



The Virus "Reforms" Its Structure 21 



The Cell a New Entity of Higher Organization 24 



III Biological Death and Sexual Reproduction 29 



How Conjugation Defeats Decay Towards Equi- 

 librium 29 

 Death in Metazoa 38 



IV Multicellular Organisms 41 



The Cell-Colony as an Intermediate Form 41 



Multicellular Life, a System on a Higher Level 47 

 A Generalization of the Problem of Biological 



Survival ^ 54 



V The Societal Organism 56 



Insect Colonies Illustrate the Process 58 

 The Societal Organism Raises the Organization 



of Its Immediate Surroundings 65 



Colonies of the Higher Animals 68 



VI Characteristics of Human Colony Formation 72 



The Importance of Language 73 



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