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    • Rhino horns and paper cups: Deceptive similarities between natural and human designs

      Steven Vogel

      Articles Volume 25 Issue 2 June 2000 pp 191-195

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    • Keywords

       

      Biomimetics; biomechanics; functional morphology

    • Abstract

       

      One cannot assume that resemblances between the mechanical devices of human technology and those produced by the evolutionary process reflect either specific copying of nature by people or some particular point of functional superiority. A third alternative is that the two mechanical contexts derive quite different advantages from a given arrangement. While this latter might appear unlikely, one can argue that it underlies such things as the use of conical shapes, helical tensile structures, spheres and cylinders, beams and columns of relatively low torsional stiffness, and geodesic shells.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Steven Vogel1

      1. Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0325, USA

    • Dates

       
      Published
      June 2000
      Manuscript received
      4 January 2000
      Accepted
      5 May 2000

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