@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x0g2c.5, ISBN = {9780674023536}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0g2c.5}, abstract = {I think it was the termites that drove me over the edge.I first encountered the remarkable fungus-growing termites of southern Africa in the late 1980s. I had just finished an extended post-doctoral stint at the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with the inimitable Professors Gideon Louw and Roy Siegfried. Initially, it was heat flows through ostrich eggs that brought me to Cape Town, but South Africa is a biological cornucopia, and I am easily distracted. So it wasn’t long before eggs were moved to the back burner so I could frolic in southern Africa’s verdant scientific fields. the}, bookauthor = {J. SCOTT TURNER}, booktitle = {The tinkerer's accomplice: how design emerges from life itself}, pages = {15--29}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, title = {Bernard Machines}, year = {2007} }