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Biomimicry

Innovation Inspired by Nature

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This ""valuable and entertaining"" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.

Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world.

Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples.

Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.

Biological Sciences Biology Ecology History History & Philosophy Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Technology Ecosystem Innovation
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Most relevant
we have to do better.
very insightful on how we as humans are not mindful

Enlightening

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fascinating book by a woman who has lead the way to a new way of thinking and looking at life

trail blazer

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Basic storytelling opening through the narrow lens of a single country, instead of diving into the taxonomies/examples of biomimicry.

basic

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