An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has
inspired the technological advancement of humankind. Biomimetics
literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term
covers technological advances where the original inspiration came
from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of
natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be
developed to a wide range of problems. In this new title in the Hot
Science series, science writer Brian Clegg looks at how humans have
piggybacked on natural experimentation, redeploying a solution to
create things that make our lives easier. He looks at how the hooks
on burdock seeds inspired the creation of Velcro, how the
stickiness of the feet of geckos and frogs has been used to create
gripping surfaces, such as tyre treads, and how even the most basic
optical enhancement in the form of spectacles is itself a form of
biomimetics.
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