Dazzled and deceived : mimicry and camouflage /

Dazzled and Deceived tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare, and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seiz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forbes, Peter, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Mimicry (Biology)
Camouflage (Biology)
Mimétisme.
Camouflage (Biologie)
camouflage.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
SCIENCE > Microscopes & Microscopy.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Darwinians, mockers and mimics
  • Swallowtails and Amazon
  • Delight in deception
  • Pangenesis
  • On the wings of angels
  • Dazzle in the dock: The First World War
  • Camouflage and cubism in the First World War
  • Hopeful monsters?
  • The natural history of the visual pun
  • Cannibals and sunshields
  • Dazzle (revisited) to D-Day
  • From butterflies to babies and back
  • The aromas of mimicry
  • The tinkerer's palette
  • The Heliconius variations
  • A shifting spectrum.

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