CHAPTER VI 



Characteristics of Human Colony Formation 



The one species in which colony formation has pro- 

 ceeded much further than among any other mammal is 

 man. In fact some of the developments that have taken 

 place in human society mark the initial phases that one 

 would expect to occur during the beginning of the 

 evolution of a societal organism. Now of course the 

 viewpoint which regards society as an organism is not 

 really new and analogies to this effect have been cited. 

 The communications system of society has been com- 

 pared to the nervous system of a living organism; the 

 police to white blood corpuscles. Other comparisons of 

 a similar nature could be enumerated. Even such con- 

 cepts as group consciousness have found their way 

 into recent literature. Some of the very terminology of 

 our language indicates that there may have been an 

 awareness (perhaps not fully conscious) of this situa- 

 tion for a considerable length of time. Yet the situation 

 is not just figuratively so, but is rapidly becoming true 



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