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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 18 (2017)

  A special issue: Biomimicry Summit and Education Forum for Aerospace (Aug. 2-4, 2016). Interviews with Vikram Shyam, Aloysius Hepp, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Nikolaus Correll, Amir Gandomi, Paul Kladitis, Konrad Rykaczewski, Wei Zhang, John Nottingham, Bill Sullivan, Petra Gruber, Zhiqiang Wu, Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, Rebecca Eagle-Malone, Stephen Howe, Peter Niewiarowski, Scott Turner, Anamarije Frankic, and Ashok Goel.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 19 (2017)

  In this issue: Harry Kroto and the Shape of Things to Come by Tom McKeag; Stranger Danger: Homeland Security in the Forest by Adelheid Fischer; Portfolio by Xavi Bou; Interviews with Thierry Chopin and Biomimicry Iberia; and Product Design: Brook Kennedy’s Macronaut.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 3 No. 20 (2017)

  In this issue: A portfolio by chef Virgilio Martinez from Central Restaurant (Lima, Peru); Interviews with Vitas SunSpiral, Tim McGee and Jan Knippers; The Abominable Mystery by Adelheid Fischer; Going to Extremes by Tom McKeag.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 4 No. 21 (2017)

  In this issue: A portfolio by Jennifer Wanner; World interviews with Great Lakes Biomimicry; Strange Worlds in Familiar Places by Clint Penick; A Cure for the Uncommon Cold by Tom McKeag; Stories from the Trenches of Biomimetic Innovation [Part 1] by Ryan Church, Rachel Hahs, and Norbert Hoeller; Teeming (Tamsin Woolley-Barker) reviewed by Liv Scott.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 22 (2018)

  In this issue: Stories from the trenches of biomimetic innovation [Part 2]: Business Model & Market Entry Strategy by Ryan Church, Rachel Hahs, and Norbert Hoeller; Hope and the Thing with Feathers by Heidi Fischer; The Blackout and the Bee, a tribute to Mark Kerbel, by Margo Farnsworth; a portfolio by Ritchie van Daal; George’s Wood by Julian Vincent.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 23 (2018)

  In this issue: Stories from the trenches of biomimetic innovation: Commercialization and Scaling Up [Part 3] by Ryan Church, Rachel Hahs, and Norbert Hoeller; Learning from No Shoulders by Heidi Fischer; Fun in the Sun by Tom McKeag; a portfolio by Leila Jeffreys; What did Socrates ever do for you? by Julian Vincent; Bioinspiration in Business and Management by Dr. Taryn Mead reviewed by Dr. Daniel Weihs, Karen Verbeek, and Norbert Hoeller; and an interview with David Waggonner.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 3 No. 24 (2018)

  In this issue: You Crack Me Up! Grace Gu’s Search for the Next Generation of Composite Materials by Tom McKeag; Designed to Move: Seeds That Float, Fly or Hitchhike through the Desert Southwest, photography by Taylor James; Perspectives on “Stories from the trenches” by Pete Foley, Margo Farnsworth, and Arndt Pechstein; a portfolio by Studio Drift; and a book review of Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry by Maibritt Pedersen Zari, reviewed by Alexandra Ralevski, Colleen Mahoney, and Jamie Miller.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 25 (2019)

  In this issue: What Forces are at Work Here? Don Ingber and the Theory of Cell Tensegrity by Tom McKeag; a portfolio by Myoung Ho Lee; Perspectives on “Stories from the trenches” by Jamie Miller & Michael Helms; Nature, Where Art Thou? by Adelheid Fischer; a portfolio by David Goodsell; Interview with Annick Bay; and Envisioning Biomimicry Through an Ontological Lens by Colleen K. Unsworth, Thibaut Houette, Sarah J. McInerney, Austin M. Garner, and Peter H. Niewiarowski.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 26 (2019)

  In this issue: Taking the Heat: Deep Sea Vents by Tom McKeag; a portfolio by Ruth Cuthand; What drives sustainability, innovation, and value in green design methods? by Jeremy Faludi; Perspectives: Bringing Business Thinking to Biomimetic Innovation by Jacques Chirazi; a portfolio by Dornith Doherty; and Perspectives: Creating an Environment Supporting Biomimetic Innovation by Jorge Rodriguez.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 27 (2020)

  In this issue: The Science of Seeing: Been There, Done That, Wanna Do It Again by Adelheid Fischer; Fog Harp: University invention to real-world impact by Brook Kennedy, Jonathan Boreyko, and Weiwei Shi; a portfolio by Fraenzi Neuhaus; The Delft Workshops by Norbert Hoeller; ZQ Reader Survey Update by Tom McKeag, Marjan Eggermont, and Norbert Hoeller.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 28 (2020)

  In this issue: The Science of Seeing: The Mighty Mite by Adelheid Fischer; How Can We Drive More Success in Bio-Inspired Design? by Ben Morgan; a portfolio by Noah Bressman; A Tiny World by Julie Laurin; an interview with Jamie Miller; The Dance of Life: How Green Chemistry can inform the Green Revolution by Ryan A. Church; and The Latest Buzz: Could the Mosquito Cause More Good than Harm? by Tom McKeag.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 29 (2021)

  In this issue: The Science of Seeing: I Am Because We Are by Adelheid Fischer; an interview with William Megill; Life in Two Worlds: The Intertidal Zone by Manuel Quirós; Supernature, a portfolio by Andrea du Plessis; an interview with Noah Pentelovich; an interview with Erika Cezarini from OKA; and a book review of Guiding Patterns of Naturally Occurring Design by Jessie Lydia Henshaw, reviewed by Richard James MacCowan.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 30 (2021)

  In this issue: Life in Two Worlds: The Intertidal Zone Part II by Manuel Quirós; interviews with Billy Almon and Guto Nobrega; a portfolio by Frédérique Swist; a book review of Biomimicry and Business: How Companies are Using Nature's Strategies to Succeed by Margo Farnsworth, reviewed by Karen Frasier Scott, Manuel Quirós, and Richard James MacCowan; and The Science of Seeing: Scientists on the Front Lines by Adelheid Fischer.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 31 (2022)

  In this issue: Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn, reviewed by Tom McKeag; portfolios by Dennis Dollens and Adrian Smith; Special supplement E. O. Wilson: Introduction by Tom McKeag; Interview: Ari Daniel Shapiro talks to E.O. Wilson; How E. O. Wilson helped me disappoint my parents and become a barber for ants by Clint Penick; Biodiversity, Bats, and Taking Autonomy Outdoors by Rolf Müller; A Natural History of the Future by Rob Dunn, reviewed by Norbert Hoeller and Philip Ling.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 32 (2022)

  In this issue: Flapping Flight: the human quest to fly like a bird by Tom McKeag: a portfolio by Karen Atta; The Science of Seeing: Night Flights by Adelheid Fischer; Kreepingarten: Shoshanah Jacobs talks to Aaron Senitt; But Where Is Everybody? by Jacquelyn Nagel and Noah Pentelovitch; Where The Wild Things Are by Adelheid Fischer; The Biomimicry Revolution by Henry Dicks, reviewed by Randall Anway.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 33 (2023)

  In this issue: The Pinch of Salt: Mimicking the Mangrove to Slake the World’s Thirst by Tom McKeag; Collaborating with Beavers by Rob Dunn; an interview with Maya Ronchetti; a portfolio: Poiésis and ancestry as trajectories of water curated by Nous Ecossistema; The Science of Seeing: An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles by Adelheid Fischer; Perspectives: The Biomimicry Revolution by Henry Dicks and Randall Anway; a portfolio: Somos Agua by Carlos Mora; The Nature of Technology (W. Brian Arthur) reviewed by Norbert Hoeller and Richard James MacCowan.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 34 (2023)

  In this issue: Autumn Meadowhawk Dragonfly by Margie Patlak; How to Build a Dragonfly by Tom McKeag; a portfolio by Mallory Zondag; The Science of Seeing: ’Tis a Gift to Be Simple by Adelheid Fischer; Mind the Gap: A Review of “Revisiting Nature’s 'Unifying Patterns': A Biological Appraisal” by Randall Anway; Don’t Blame Bats by Manuel Quirós; a portfolio: “Amiguitos de la Oscuridad” (Little Friends of the Darkness) by Juan Nicolás Elizalde; Water in the Southwest USA: an interview with Ray Lucchesi and Michael Ogden; Language vs. knowledge in bio-inspired design: A Review of “Revisiting Nature’s 'Unifying Patterns': A Biological Appraisal” by Marc Weissburg.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 35 (2024)

  In this issue: The Collective Ant Brain by Margie Patlak; Nature as a Blueprint for Resilient and Sustainable Engineering Systems by Hadear Hassan, Abheek Chatterjee, and Astrid Layton; Can Manufactured Ecosystems fully replace ecosystem services? by Shoshanah Jacobs et al.; a portfolio: Art-thinking by Daniel Mira; Robotany: a new way to moveby Tom McKeag.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 36 (2024)

  In this issue: On Growth and Form: Six Lessons for Designers by Tom McKeag; Interview: Kristina Wanieck; a portfolio: Entomographies by Xavi Bou in collaboration with Adrian Smith; In Memoriam: The Legacy of Thierry Chopin; Biomimetics International’s First Annual Symposium by Thomas Fisher.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 1 No. 37 (2025)

  In this Issue: Looking Closer: Cultivating Bio-Inspired Design (BID) with Macro Photography by Brook Kennedy; The Science of Seeing: Spellbound by Adelheid Fischer; The Pivot to FeatherEdge®: How to Launch a Biomimetic Start-up by Ryan Church; a portfolio by Kristine Zingeler; In Memoriam: Nikolay Bogatyrev; Biomimetics: Ten Assumptions I Question by Nikolay Bogatyrev; Interview with Floating Island International by Shoshanah Jacobs.

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  Zygote Quarterly

  Vol. 2 No. 38 (2025)

  In this Issue: Diatoms: Building Glass Houses by Tom McKeag; Unlocking innovation through fossils: how ancient life can inspire modern technology by Annabelle Aish and Tom Challands; Who Controls Whom? By Manuel Quirós and Oscar Aguado; In Memoriam: Claire Janisch by Jess Berliner; The value of the sub-organism perspective in organizational design by Irene Nooren.