Reply to the ‘Comment on “Innovation through imitation: Biomimetic, bioinspired and biokleptic research”’ by M. Drack and I. C. Gebeshuber, Soft Matter, 2013, 9, DOI: 10.1039/c2sm26722e

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A response to the comments raised by Drack et al. in their reply to the discussion of biomimicry and related fields set out in our opinions paper Rawlings et al. Here we appreciate the common views we share and welcome the clarity this gives, and we discuss and question some of their criticisms of the original piece and clarify our opinion in this area.