Biosynergy

Corning, Peter A. The Synergism Hypothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.

Maynard Smith, John, and Eörs Szathmáry. The Major Transitions in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Corning, Peter A. Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Corning, Peter A. Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Corning, Peter A. Synergistic Selection: How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution and the Rise of Humankind. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2018.

For a review, see: Peter Nonacs, no contradictory evidence included and the claims are not defended, the claimed effects are by-products of other processes.

Rose, Anthony L. ‘Biosynergy’. In The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, 1–5. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2017.

Mathews uses the term in a narrower sense that the entries above do not cover. For her, biosynergy names a relation in which parties co-determine one another's ends, so each constitutes its own goals with reference to what the others need. This goes beyond cooperation, which assists parties in pursuing ends they already hold. She derives the relation from two principles: conativity, the impulse of living things to persevere in and increase their own existence, and least resistance, whereby agents pursue their ends by the routes that least provoke resistance and therefore least thwart the conativity of others. Human reflexivity allows departure from least resistance, which is how she explains ecological harm. Cf. Phase Space on where value enters a possibility space, and Thriving on self-increase as distinct from self-maintenance.

Mathews, Freya. “Towards a Deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry.” Organization & Environment 24, no. 4 (2011): 364–87. https://doi.org/10/d9qtvr.

Mathews, Freya. “Nature Does Not ‘Design’; It Responds.” In Place and Parametricism: Critical, Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design, edited by Mark Burry, Gini Lee, Jeff Malpas, Stanislav Roudavski, and Mark Taylor, 289–300. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Synergy

In human 'movement studies' (e.g., human hand movement), but appears to be applicable to all types of examples of "working together":

Latash, Mark L. Synergy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.