Biocybernetics is an abstract science and is a fundamental part of theoretical biology, based upon the principles of systemics.
2007) A unique example of this within the human sector of biocybernetics would be in society during the colonization period, when Great Britain established their colonies in North America and Australia.
Like all children, the colonies inherited many characteristics, such as language, customs and technologies, from their parents, but still developed their own personality.
Thus, the growth of society is more like that of plants than like that of the higher animals that we are most familiar with, there is not a clear distinction between a parent and its offspring.
Although the extended form of the word is biological cybernetics, the field is most commonly referred to as biocybernetics in scientific papers.
Early proponents of biocybernetics include Ross Ashby, Hans Drischel, and Norbert Wiener among others.