In the 1970s and 80s, some cybernetics researchers began to realise that their work could be applied in molecular biology in novel ways. As a result, these thinkers developed a form of the discipline which became known as new cybernetics. Although it uses the same principles, this form is often seen as being more suited to the organic organisations which are to be found in nature, such as the way certain insect colonies behave, for example. In other words, this form of cybernetics is strictly focussed on systems and structures which humans have not invented and which - in many cases – pre-date the presence of homo sapiens entirely.