Field Guides - General & Miscellaneous, Anatomy - General & Miscellaneous, Arthropods - Insects - Butterflies & Moths, Biology - Entomology
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Overview
Integrating the results of comparative morphology, experiments on pattern development, the genetics of color patterns, and theoretical modeling of pattern formation, Nijhout shows that the enormous diversity of natural patterns arises largely from quantitative variations in a small set of readily understandable generating rules.
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An early volume (the first?) in a new series which will feature a diversity of innovative studies with some preference toward the organismic level. In this investigation into butterfly color patterns, Nijhout (zoology, Duke U.) integrates the results of comparative morphology, experiments on pattern development, the genetics of color patterns, and theoretical modeling of pattern formation to show that the enormous diversity of natural patterns arises largely from quantitative variations in a small set of generating rules involving size, shape, position, and color. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
August 28, 1991
Publisher
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1991.
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780874749212