I bet a super-intelligent alien ethologist would interpret our society as a living thing. I'm almost sure there are anthropologists who share the same view :)

I bet a super-intelligent alien ethologist would interpret our society as a living thing. I'm almost sure there are anthropologists who share the same view :) The study of multi-organism systems: populations, ecosystems and the like is commonly associated with Biology, or a branch (Ecology). They will go as far as "biosphere", in an attempt to study the entire planet.