Insights into Innovation

What can engineers learn from evolutionary biologists? Plenty, according to Erwin and Krakauer in their Perspective, which discusses a recent workshop devoted to biological and technological invention and innovation.

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[2]  S. Gould.  The Structure of Evolutionary Theory , 2002 .

[3]  H. Krenn,et al.  Origin of a complex key innovation in an obligate insect–plant mutualism , 2002, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.