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A review by heather01602to60660
Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization by Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane
2.0
I fully admit, science is not my strongest area of study, so take it with a grain of salt, but I struggled a lot through this book. The idea of the "constructal law" seems pretty simple - basically everything that moves is a flow system and all flow systems evolve over time to best support that movement, where the flow system can be anything animate or inanimate, and the movement can be physical or something like moving ideas from person to person.
Honestly, it started out as a fairly interesting idea, but then became very repetitive, and the supposed examples that gave proof to the constructal law being the basis for, well, everything seemed to get thinner and thinner. I found myself skimming more, though, so I'm not sure if the issue was with the writing (not all that engaging for this non-scientist, at least) or the examples themselves.
Honestly, it started out as a fairly interesting idea, but then became very repetitive, and the supposed examples that gave proof to the constructal law being the basis for, well, everything seemed to get thinner and thinner. I found myself skimming more, though, so I'm not sure if the issue was with the writing (not all that engaging for this non-scientist, at least) or the examples themselves.