Sharks, Thorny Devils & Geckos

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Originally published Apr 15, 2008  by AAqtash
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But the main reason biomimetics hasn’t yet come of age is that from an engineering standpoint, nature is famously, fabulously, wantonly complex. Evolution doesn’t “design” a fly’s wing or a lizard’s foot by working toward a final goal, as an engineer would—it blindly cobbles together myriad random experiments over thousands of generations, resulting in wonderfully inelegant organisms whose goal is to stay alive long enough to produce the next generation and launch the next round of random experiments.

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Elaborate article, describing different “design by nature” examples, including pictures.

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Biognosis is a rare synonym for biomimicry, biomimetics, bionics, Bionik (German), bionique (French) and other expressions which describe the process of learning more about how nature copes successfully with diverse challenges and apply these findings to human technology, products, services and processes.

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