(GUNTAI) Misato Katsuragi said that, viewed from the
Instrumentality Project,
humankind is
"a colony of flawed and separate entities". Colony means a group of
individual organisms linked to each other, with new
individual organisms produced by
splitting or
budding. Each individual organism within the colony has the capability to
live independently.
Source: The End of Evangelion : Glossary contained within The End of Evangelion - Theatrical Program.