Bejan, Adrian,  1948- <br/><br/>
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 :  Doubleday,  c2012. 
 - vii, 296 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385534611 (hbk.) 0385534612 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011015398 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pattern formation (Physical sciences)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q172.5.C45  / B45 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>500