Cheats and deceits : how animals and plants exploit and mislead

• Tác giả: Martin Stevens
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0198707894
• ISBN-13: 978-0198707899
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 591.472 +Camouflage formerly also 578.47 and color
• Mô tả vật lý: xvi, 300 pages : , color illustrations ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học tự nhiên
• ID: 275476
• Chủ đề: 1. Adaptation (Biology); 2. Animal behavior; 3. Animal defenses; 4. Camouflage (Biology); 5. Mimicry (Biology); 6. Predation (Biology); 13. Biological Mimicry; 14. Behavior, Animal

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.

Tóm tắt

In Cheats and Deceits, Martin Stevens describes the remarkable range of adaptations in nature, and considers how they have evolved and increasingly been perfected as part of an arms race between predator and prey or host and parasite. He explores both classic and recent research of naturalists and biologists, showing how scientists find ways of testing the impact of particular behaviors and colorings on the animals it is meant to fool. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Stevens considers what deception tells us about the process of evolution and adaptation.-- AMAZON.