H. G. Wells and B. F. Skinner on the superorganism

In Skinner's Walden Two, the central character Frazier refers to the supero rganism and how to build it, but without elaboration. An examination of som e parallels between the work of H. G. Wells and B. F. Skinner, however, cas ts light on that reference and other aspects of Skinner's views, such as mu ltiple selves. Both Wells and Skinner wrote in similar ways about what the composition of such a superorganism would be and the conditions for its dev elopment. In particular, attention is directed to the ways in which their f orecasts of the conditions for producing the superorganism changed over tim e, from determinism-based conditions to more evolutionary or selection-base d conditions.