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  • 31Animal coloration — Chapman s Zebras in Botswana, displaying their outline disrupting camouflage Animal coloration has been a topic of interest and research in biology for well over a century. According to Charles Darwin s 1859 theory of natural selection,[1 …

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  • 32Aposematism — (from apo away, and sematic sign/meaning), perhaps most commonly known in the context of warning colouration, describes a family of antipredator adaptations where a warning signal is associated with the unprofitability of a prey item to potential …

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  • 34community ecology — Introduction       study of the organization and functioning of communities (community), which are assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular area or habitat.       As populations of species interact with one …

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  • 35Euploea core — Common Crow redirects here. For the bird, see Corvus (genus). Common Crow Common Crow feeding on Lantana flowers. Kerala, India Scientific classific …

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  • 36Heliconius numata — Numata Longwing Numata Longwing with Red Postman behind Scientific classification Kingdom …

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  • 37Adaptation — This article is about the evolutionary process. For other uses, see Adaptation (disambiguation). Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology …

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  • 38coloration — colorational, adj. colorationally, adv. /kul euh ray sheuhn/, n. appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds. [1605 15; COLOR + ATION] * * * ▪ biology Introduction       in biology,… …

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  • 39Edward Bagnall Poulton — Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (January 27 1856 ndash;November 20 1943) was a British evolutionary zoologist. He became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893. Life Between 1873 and 1876, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford… …

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  • 40Henry Walter Bates — FRS, FLS, FGS (February 8, 1825 ndash; February 16, 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848.… …

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