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superorganism

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su·per·or·gan·ism  (spr-ôrg-nzm)
n.
A group of organisms, such as an insect colony, that functions as a social unit.
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LIFE AS A SUPERORGANISM - As Ian Willams writes for our next issue, "In 2002, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg coined the term "superorganism" to describe the ensemble of human and non-human cells that constitute our body.
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