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Dazzled and deceived : mimicry and camouflage / Peter Forbes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forbes, Peter, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mimicry (Biology).
- Camouflage (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- xv, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Darwinians, mockers and mimics 6
- Chapter 2 Swallowtails and Amazon 31
- Chapter 3 Delight in deception 43
- Chapter 4 Pangenesis 57
- Chapter 5 On the wings of angels 71
- Chapter 6 Dazzle in the dock: The First World War 85
- Chapter 7 Camouflage and cubism in the First World War 101
- Chapter 8 Hopeful monsters? 113
- Chapter 9 The natural history of the visual pun 127
- Chapter 10 Cannibals and Sunshields 138
- Chapter 11 Dazzle (revisited) to D-Day 170
- Chapter 12 From butterflies to babies and back 182
- Chapter 13 The aromas of mimicry 197
- Chapter 14 The tinkerer's palette 207
- Chapter 15 The Heliconius variations 221
- Chapter 16 A shifting spectrum 235.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300125399
- 0300125399
- OCLC:
- 317471706
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