TY - BOOK AU - Bejan,Adrian AU - Zane,J.Peder TI - Design in nature: how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization SN - 9780385534611 (hbk.) AV - Q172.5.C45 B45 2012 U1 - 500 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Doubleday KW - Pattern formation (Physical sciences) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index; 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 N2 - 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-- ER -