1 The history of mimicry in design likely predates the development of tools by early humans. The seminal work on mimicry in plants and animals was performed by Henry Bates and Fritz Muller in the late 1800s.
2 See, for example, The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, Doubleday, 1990.
3 See, for example, Designing Sociable Robots by Cynthia L. Breazeal, MIT Press, 2002; and “The Lovable Cat: Mimicry Strikes Again” in The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain by William H. Calvin, iUniverse, 2000.
4 See, for example, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus, William Morrow & Company, 1998; and Cats’ Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
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