HUMAN COLONY FORMATION 



it is a characteristic of the integration taking place as 

 a colony develops into an organism. 



Society's more recent technical advances such as the 

 radio, telegraph, television, rapid transportation, mass 

 distribution of printed material, even such processes as 

 a public election in which the summated desire of 

 large numbers is rapidly recorded — all these mech- 

 anisms operate to transform human society into the 

 integrated entity constituting the societal organism. 

 The analogy of these processes to those which must 

 have taken place during the development of the mul- 

 ticellular organism is indeed striking. The comparison 

 of modern communications to the nervous system of 

 the animal body, of highways and railroads to its ar- 

 teries, and similar examples are, as has been men- 

 tioned, not new. However the concept that society 

 actually constitutes an organic development of living 

 matter, consistent with established evolutionary pat- 

 tern has, as far as the author knows, never been clearly 

 stated and certainly has never been presented as part 

 of a general theory of the evolution of matter. Under- 

 standing of mankind as an evolving bio-social entity, 

 permits insight into human society from an entirely 

 new perspective. 



INDIVIDUAL SURVIVAL IS BECOMING DEPENDENT 

 ON EXISTENCE WITHIN THE COLONY 



The survival possibilities of the individual human 



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