The document discusses how organisms adapt to changing environments through various strategies like leaving, hiding, adapting, borrowing, and cooperating. It also explores what can be learned from slime molds, which have no central leader but can still efficiently transport nutrients through self-organizing and adaptive behaviors, and how these principles could inspire transportation systems.

1. UNFRIENDLY PLACES?

2. BUT LIFE IS (ALMOST) EVERYWHERE

3. HOW TO COPE WITH
CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES?

4. LEAVE

5. HIDE
PUBLIC DOMAIN: CDC/DR GEORGE HEALY

6. ADAPT

7. BORROW

8. COOPERATE
CC-BY-NC-SA: PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY

9. WHAT ELSE CAN WE LEARN
FROM NATURE?

10. SLIME MOLDS
CC-BY-NC-SA: MYRIORAMA http://www.flickr.com/photos/myriorama/675955701/

11. CC-BY-NC-SA: MYRIORAMA http://www.flickr.com/photos/myriorama/2039486562/

12. CC-BY-NC-SA: MYRIORAMA http://www.flickr.com/photos/myriorama/243577052/

13. NO GOVERNOR
NO LEADING CELL
NO MASTER PLAN

14. BIOLOGY INSPIRED TRANSPORTATION
Courtesy of Andrew Adamatzky and Jeff Jones of the University of the West of England

15. SELF-ORGANIZING
ADAPTIVE