Cohort Program Blog, Interviews and Other Writing

  • Building bridges between biology and design

    Authors: Emilie Snell-Rood
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    In the classroom: sketching diagrams of a lobster-inspired device that could harvest desalinated water.

    “I want to build a community center where people come together and get along, and I’m looking at nature for ideas because of all of the harmonious and interconnected relationships where animals and plants co-exist.”

    I was talking with an architecture graduate student in a class on bio-inspired design. She was one of many students who was excited to dive into the…

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  • Features of Autonomy in Human Evolution

    Authors: Bernd Rosslenbroich, Susanna Kümmell, Benjamin Bembé (Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Morphology, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany)
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    blue anenome like sea creatures

    Studies of macroevolution have revealed various trends in evolution, which have been documented and surmised. There is, however, no consensus on this topic. Since Darwin’s time there has been one presumption that throughout evolution organisms increase their independence and stability towards environmental influences. This consideration appears repeatedly in the literature…

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  • The gene’s eye view of evolution

    Authors: J. Arvid Ågren
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    Dublad, J. (n.d.). The gene’s eye view of evolution, with Arvid Agren. Reason with Science podcast (No. 8).

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