Biophilia

What the study found

Proposes an evolved human tendency to attend to and affiliate with life and life-like processes.

Limitations

Broad hypothesis rather than direct design evidence.

Neurodesign interpretation

Biophilia is a hypothesis about human tendencies, not a specification manual. The corpus should prevent the concept from becoming evidence for any feature labeled 'natural.'

Possible design implications

Use only as theoretical framing; individual biophilic design claims require separate empirical evidence.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as the conceptual origin of biophilia.

Study design

Book

Population

General theory

Setting

Conceptual

Field

Biophilia, evolutionary theory

Mechanism

Human affiliation with living systems

Spatial variable

Nature and living systems

Keywords

biophilia, Wilson, evolution, nature