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Dazzled and Deceived - Mimicry and Camouflage

Dazzled and Deceived - Mimicry and Camouflage

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作者: Peter Forbes 著

出版社: Yale University Press

出版时间: 2011-08

ISBN: 9780300178968

定价: 178.90

装帧: 平装

页数: 304页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>童书

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Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world — including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes — have honed their skills of camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals to their surroundings, nature's fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage, and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious — but how does 'blind' nature do it? And how has humanity learned to profit from nature's ploys? 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 had 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. As Dazzled and Deceived unravels the concept of mimicry, Forbes introduces colourful stories and a dazzling cast of characters — Picasso, Roosevelt, Nabokov, Churchill and Darwin himself, to name a few — whom its mystery influenced and enthralled. Illuminating and lively, Dazzled and Deceived sheds new light on the greatest quest: to understand the processes of life at its deepest level. Peter Forbes is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
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Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world — including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes — have honed their skills of camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals to their surroundings, nature's fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage, and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious — but how does 'blind' nature do it? And how has humanity learned to profit from nature's ploys? 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 had 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. As Dazzled and Deceived unravels the concept of mimicry, Forbes introduces colourful stories and a dazzling cast of characters — Picasso, Roosevelt, Nabokov, Churchill and Darwin himself, to name a few — whom its mystery influenced and enthralled. Illuminating and lively, Dazzled and Deceived sheds new light on the greatest quest: to understand the processes of life at its deepest level.
作者简介:
Peter Forbes is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

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