Major Material Complexity Level 6: A Family System: Hyperland System
Context: Level 5: Hypersea
Example: Bee Colony
Hyperland as a "physical entity" is the connectness of life in
life on land: from the ants, bees, flocks of birds, cattle, dogs, coyotes,
mankind and his buildings and tools. This Vernadskian-Margulian
view, living matter and its products has extended the life on land (Hypersea)
over life and non-life of the Earth as a dynamic functional structure.
Bringing carbohydrates, proteins, nuclei acids and a mobile throbbing to
the rich-barren, limited mobility of life on land, Hypersea.
Level 6 Chaotic Layer(weather subsystem:Hypersea): Species Systems
Chaotic Center: Hypersea
Macrosystem: Hyperland
Microsystems: Social Organisms
Level 6 Order Layer (geological subsystem:Hyperland): Family Systems
Mobile geology: migrating herds: buffalo, plant and soil tillers (mole
rats)
Yanomani Family, Kogapakuri Village
Order Region: Mammalian families (sexual organisms, nuturing families)
"Social insect" colonies (actual misnamed)(sexual organisms,
nuturing families)
Subsystems: Replicative -- Domesticated (symbiotic) Species systems:
gut bacteria, aphids, slave ants
Subsystems: Dissipative -- Parasitic Species systems: diseases (eubacteria,
bacteria, viral), parasites (arthopods)
The Ants,
Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Subsystems: Replicative -- Symbiotic Family Species (Domesticated
Plants, Domesticated Animals)
Microsystems: Societies (trading families)
Bibliography
Boaz, Noel T., Eco Homo, Basic Books, 1997.
Wills, Christopher, The Children of Prometheus, 1999.
Diamond, Jared, The Third Chimpanzee, HarperCollins, 1992
Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel, 1997.