I am asking festwgers to review my post of February 2019 on the family as an economic unit and an emotional unit. I am continuing to work on the question of how economic conditions interface with the family emotional system. I am intrigued with the work of John Gowdy, an ecological evolutionary economist. He was the guest speaker at the Bowen Center Conference, “Creating a Climate for Change.” He proposes that human evolution took a decisive turn with the agricultural revolution, and at some point went from being social, in the sense of caring and cooperative reltionships, to being ultrasocial. Ultrasociality as defined by Donald Campbell refers to the most social of animal organizations, with full time division of labor, specialists who gather no food but are fed by others, effective sharing of information about sources of food and danger, and self-sacrificial effort in collective defense. Such groups are rare in nature. Humans share these qualities with ants and termites. Gowdy sees the result for humans as the creation of the “global market superorganism.” Human societies have come to operate largely as economic superorganisms in which the individual freedom and autonomy of the members is constrained to varying degrees by the controlling power of the dominating economic system. I would be interested in ideas about how any of this is consistent with Bowen theory.