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Jonathan Hay shares an animation of microscopic organisms to illustrate the dynamic of living things functioning as groups.

He describes the fascinating eventuality where sometime in deep prehistory one organism swallowed another and together

they began to function as a new organism, a superorganism.

This superorganism becomes stronger than the sum of its parts, more robust and more adaptable.

Humanity is much like a superorganism. As social creatures, we need each other and benefit greatly from each other.

Groups provide interaction that produces more strategic and material resources

beneficial for our individual's survival.

In a way, the individual is swallowed into a social group,

and then becomes one of many functioning organs of the whole creature of the group. This group distinguishes itself,

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