This is a linkpost for http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/02/21/prescientific-organizational-theory/
The choice of image was probably partly inspired by the example of dinosaurs and mammals, which I think reduces how struck we should be by any match-up.
Very true - see the more explicit parallels to ecosystems in my earlier piece on scaling companies; www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/03/17/go-corporate-or-go-home/
It explains why companies need to end up bureaucratic when they scale, and on the way it talks about the analogy to living systems in various ways.