Masters of Disguise: Animal Mimics Fool Their Foes (preview)

The year was 1848. a young British naturalist named Henry Walter Bates had gone to the Amazon with fellow countryman Alfred Russel Wallace to look for evidence of the origin of species. Over the course of his 11-year stay, he noticed that local relatives of a European butterfly known as the cabbage white–the pierids–were bedecked in the showy reds and yellows of rain forest butterflies called heliconids

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Masters of Disguise: Animal Mimics Fool Their Foes (preview)