"superorganism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991, James Lovelock, Healing Gaia, New York: Harmony Books, page 64",
          "text": "A superorganism is an ensemble of living and non-living matter, which acts as a single self-regulating system. […] Gaia is the largest and most complex superorganism we know.",
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          "ref": "1993, Gregory Stock, Metaman: the Merging of Humans and Machines Into a Global Superorganism, New York: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, page 43",
          "text": "To grasp why Metaman—our strange amalgam of concrete, humans, computer chips, and various plants and animals—is a superorganism rather than merely an elaborate “social grouping” of humans, look at another, far simpler grouping of organisms—a termite colony.",
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        "A social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that functions as if it were a single organism."
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        "(biology) A social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that functions as if it were a single organism."
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