The Biomimicry Taxonomy is a classification system developed by the Biomimicry Institute to organize biological content on the website AskNature. The taxonomy categorizes the different ways that organisms and natural systems meet functional challenges into groups of related functions.
Use the taxonomy to help you navigate AskNature or, when beginning a design challenge, as a tool to help you “think functionally” and identify questions you can “ask” nature.
This US letter-size diagram is printable in both color and greyscale.
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Version 6.1 of the Taxonomy is now available. This new version has been updated to reflect AskNature’s visual design and subtle changes made to some function names and subgroup structures. It also corrects the radial guide error noted below.
Okay, got it to work, but I had to open it in Photoshop to override the guides layer. Just FYI.
Thank you. We are aware of this quirk on some systems. We anticipate updating the taxonomy with an improved version soon.
Guys, I’m trying to download this graphic, and it displays just fine, but when I save the PDF, the radial guides display, borking the image. (I’m on an old Mac, so that may be part of the issue.)