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Nature 444, 425-426 (23 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444425b; Published online 22 November 2006
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Learning from nature
Robert W. Cahn1
BOOK REVIEWED-Biomimetics: Biologically Inspired Technologies
edited by Yoseph Bar-Cohen
CRC Press: 2006. 527 pp. £79.99
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin —
That all with one consent praise new-born gauds,
Though they are made and moulded of things past,
And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gold o'er-dusted.Yoseph Bar-Cohen's multi-author volume Biomimetics, devoted as it is to a plethora of 'new-born gauds', has examples of gold coated in a variable thickness of dust.
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