<P><b> This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st&ndash;century problems.</b></P><P> If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature &ndash; taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R\'9126D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells &ndash; and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world. </P><P> Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus names and explains this phenomenon. She takes us into the lab and out in the field with cutting&ndash;edge researchers as they stir vats of proteins to unleash their computing power; analyse how electrons zipping around a leaf cell convert sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they&#7269; sick; study the hardy prairie as a model for low&ndash;maintenance agriculture; and more.</P><P> </b></b></P>