NATURE’S SECRETS – Designs from nature provide elegant solutions to critical problems

A new term has emerged in the world of business and ecology, called biomimicry. Defined from the Greek bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning imitation, biomimicry is not new — for over 3.8 billion years of evolutionary time, the natural world has been tinkering with what works best on our planet. But only recently have humans turned to natural systems to seek solutions to our technological problems.
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