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It Takes a Village to Survive When You’re a Superorganism

Ants, termites, honeybees, wasps — they may make our skin crawl, but they operate in ingenious, cooperative ways that humans have yet to be able to replicate.

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5 Biomimicry Principles for Collective Intelligence

I’ve been reading my esteemed colleague Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker’s Teeming: How Superorganisms Work to Build Infinite Wealth in a Finite World for the past few weeks. The book is so riveting...

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INTERVIEW: Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker on how biomimicry can improve happiness and creativity in the workplace

If you’ve ever admired the work ethic of an ant colony and wished you could apply those principles to your company, you’ll do well to check out Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker’s newest book.

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The superorganism way of life: moving from scarcity to abundance

Biomimicry saved my life, and brought sunlight to me in a very dark place. It began in a place of intense scarcity––a deeply finite world. I was struggling.

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Want to build an organization that lasts? Create a superorganism.

As an evolutionary biologist, a businessperson, and a biomimic, I’m always looking for the deep patterns in life, trying to find out what lasts. And here’s one thing I know is true: Organizations can’t keep growing the way we structure them today.

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Biomimicry: Mother Nature as a 3D Printer?

Last month, over 350 bio-inspired futurists from all over the world came together to ask how humans can learn from the rest of nature to create conditions conducive to Life.