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In my lecture I will try to convince you that more biology is needed in biomimetics.Biologists tend to be under-represented at meetings on bionic engineering and sometimes they seem to be almost absent.This has several reasons which will be addressed.Often the lack of biological analysis and/orof an adequate appreciation of the complexity of the problems,a biologists particular way of thinking and approaching problems may be in the way and make the best possible efficiency in designing synthetic devices impossible.A key role here plays the adequate appreciation of the fundamental process of evolution,the biologically driven adaptive character of any biological "design" and the necessity to clarify the biological context in sufficient detail before engineering should start.