Other uses for the term Meta Organism?

Trying to see if my theory is different from earlier theories, I googled a bit for other people's use of the term "Meta Organism". Do coincidences have some transcendental meaning? Well, if they do, then this is extremely meaningful:

• My first stop was this page - a 1998 submission to "ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS", titled "Gaia Brain and the History of Life: a Capitalism/Communism Synthesis". Definitely not the title I was looking for, but I glanced through it.
  
  What immediately caught my attention was a reference to Mitochondria. The Mitochondria are sub-organisms that exist within the cells of multi-cellular organisms, and are crucial to their existence. The prevalent theory among biologists (at least at the time of my writing this) is that the Mitochondria were once independent, living organisms.
  
  The reason that this caught my attention, was that the entire Meta Organism model began to take shape in my mind a few years ago, while watching a BBC program that mentioned this interesting origin of Mitochondria.
  
  
• I kept skimming through the article, and noticed that it speaks of society as an organism, and then mentions social insects (bees, ants, termites). This was also an interesting point for me, because I have been fascinated with the concept of "the ant colony as a single organism" ever since I first read Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach (over 20 years ago).
  
  
• The next thing that really sparked my interest was the reference to mental models - a very important part of my Meta Organism theory!
  
  
• I then noticed that all of the paragraphs that caught my attention cite a book called "The Phenomenon of Science" by Valentin Turchin.
  
  
• A few clicks later, I learned that Valentin Turchin is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences at the City College of NY, and a member of the editorial board at Principia Cybernetica. The web site I was looking at seemed somehow familiar. It took me a while, but at some point I realized the reason: the page on which I was reading Turchin's bio was on the Principia Cybernetica site -- the exact same resource that Danny mentioned in his comment on my Table of Contents!!
  

Well, I definitely have some reading to do...