Superorganismos - Superorganisms

Superorganismos son individuos agregados que poseen un comportamiento de un organismo unificado. Miembros de un superorganismo tiene instintos sociales altamente especializdos, division de trabajo, y son incapaces de sobrevivir lejos del su superorganismo por mucho tiempo. El ejemplo estandar para un superorganismo son las colonias de hormigas, pero existen muchos otros -- colonias de termitas, abejas, nidos de abispas, coral, sociedades de arboles geneticamente identicos, etc.

Este video muestra una charla en relacion al libro "Super-Organismo", publicado el 2009, y escrito por Bert Hölldobler & E.O. Wilson (autor además del clasico "Sociobiologia")

A superorganism is any aggregate of individual organisms that behaves like a unified organism. Members of a superorganism have highly specialized social cooperative instincts, divisions of labor, and are unable to survive away from their superorganism for very long. The standard example of a superorganism is an ant colony, but there are many others -- termite mounds, bee hives, wasp nests, coral reefs, fungal colonies, groves of genetically identical trees, etc.

This video shows a talk in relation to the 2009 published book "Super-Organism" by Bert Hölldobler & E.O. Wilson (Author also of the classic work "Sociobiology")

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