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Since life began, living organisms have developed strategies to become more independent from their environment and to improve their survival. Such strategies include building functional structures which allow them to rest, breed, protect themselves, hunt, or store food. Animal structures present an amazing variety of materials, construction techniques (skills) and resultant designs. They may serve a great many purposes depending not only on the needs and characteristics of each species but also on what is available in their environment. Humans have much more in common with other animals than we imagine, but our capacity to learn and innovate has taken us way beyond purely functional construction. The mechanisms which induce humans to build also differ and lead us to speak of animal builders but human architects.
