為什麼大自然的萬物會塑造出他們所呈現的模樣？為什麼鳥兒會飛？為什麼小兒會去造出我們所見的鳥巢結構？啄木鳥是怎樣啄洞的？這一類的問題Lorna Gibson博士在麻省理工學院的新生研討會會有相當的琢磨。我們邀請你ㄧ起與我們探索其中的奧妙。
Why are things in nature shaped the way they are? How do birds fly? Why do bird nests look the way they do? How do woodpeckers peck? These are the types of questions Dr. Lorna Gibson's freshman seminar at MIT has been investigating. We invite you to explore with us.
這一類的問題是屬於擬生物研究的題材。當工程師複製自然界中的結構我們就稱之為擬生物學。擬生態這個字來自於bio這個字首，當生物學與仿製放在一起，這個字的意義在於複製的意涵。
Questions such as these are the subject of biomimetic research. When engineers copy the shapes found in nature we call it Biomimetics. The word biomimic comes from bio, as in biology and mimetic, which means to copy.
