Design in nature : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization / Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane.

By:

Bejan, Adrian

Contributor(s):

Zane, J. Peder

Publication details: New York : Anchor Books, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: vii, 296 p. : illISBN:

9780307744340 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Pattern formation (Physical sciences)

DDC classification:

500 BEJ

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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--

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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--

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