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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2009]
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| Summary: | 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 seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin's theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes's cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics, and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the perennial dispute between evolution and creationism. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300125399 (alk. paper) 0300125399 (alk. paper) |