World Business: Biomimicry 19/11/2010 | PBS
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Program:
World Business #1039
Broadcast Date: Nov. 19, 2010
World Business: Over the last few hundred years the technological leaps made by mankind have been staggering. But the complexity of what we can achieve today is nothing compared to what occurs naturally in the animal world. And some scientists believe the best way forward is simply to copy nature. Reporter: Ed Mantle
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