An edition of Cheats and deceits (2016)
Cheats and deceits
how animals and plants exploit and mislead
By Martin Stevens
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
300
Description:
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.