Book cover of The Benefits of Imperfection

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The cult of performance leads our society to emphasise the values of success and continuous optimisation in all areas. Slowness, redundancy and randomness are therefore negatively perceived. Olivier Hamant, in his book, reclaims them by his knowledge of biological processes.

What can we learn from life sciences? While some biological…

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