Biomimicry
Innovation Inspired by Nature
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 17, 2002
Repackaged with a new afterword, 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.
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- Who it’s for
- Nature becomes an unlikely design brief for scientists tackling human problems.
- Themes
- Biomimicry, Nature-inspired innovation, Solving environmental problems
- Genres
- Biotech, Ecology, Environmental Science
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Repackaged with a new afterword, 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.
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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.
Nature as Design
Nature becomes an unlikely design brief for scientists tackling human problems.
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- Stories of invention drawn from nature’s hard-won solutions
- A fresh lens on materials, energy, health, and food
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- Science and design meeting across a wide range of human needs
- Inventive stories with room for both vision and pipe dreams
Where it sits
| Biotech | 46% |
|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 24% |
| Ecology | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- History of Architecture
- Business Lives
- Science & Tech Pioneers
- Business & Economics
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- Management
- Business Motivation
- Environmental Economics
- World History
- Authors
- Janine M. Benyus
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 17, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Biomimicry · Nature-inspired innovation · Solving environmental problems
- Reading lane
- History of Architecture