Design in nature : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization /
Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Anchor Books, 2012.
- vii, 296 p. : ill. ;
The birth of flow -- The birth of design -- Animals on the move -- Witnessing evolution -- Seeing beyond the trees and the forest -- Why hierarchy reins -- The fast and long meets the slow and short -- The design of academia -- The golden ratio, vision, cognition, and culture -- The design of history.
Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow--