There are some design cognition studies on transferring biological
principles to design, but they are rather new. The ones I know about are
works by my colleague Ashok Goel, and his group, who have been studying
the design processes of students in our Biologically-inspired Design
class. If you search Ashok Goel, you probably find them (look for works
published in the Acadia and Design Computing Cognition volumes from 2008).
cheers
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