
doi: 10.1242/jeb.020867
![Figure][1] Humans are pretty good problem solvers, but we've still got a long way to go before we better evolution's ingenuity; which is why engineers turn to biology for inspiration. Self-cleaning glass and gecko sticky tape are just two examples of biologically inspired inventions. When
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