The Adaptiveness of Animal Colors
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 31 (10), 723-729
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1308778
Abstract
Three major classes of hypotheses have been developed to account for the colors of animals: (1) Selection is for the physical or chemical propertiesKeywords
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