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Colouration in Animals and Plants

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Colouration in Animals and Plants

Alfred Tylor and Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly

140 pages~2 hr 47 min read117 chapters$4.99
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Why is a leaf green, a flamingo pink, a tiger striped? Alfred Tylor gathers the evidence on coloration in living things, asking what color is for and how nature produces it. An early inquiry into camouflage, display, and pigment across animals and plants. A thoughtful Victorian science read. For anyone who has wondered why the living world is painted as it is.

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117 chapters

  1. 1[ii]
  2. 2[iii]
  3. 3[iv]
  4. 4[v]
  5. 5[vi]
  6. 6[vii]
  7. 7[viii]
  8. 8[ix]
  9. 9[x]
  10. 10[xi]
  11. 11[xii]
  12. 12[xiv]
  13. 13[1]
  14. 14[2]
  15. 15[3]
  16. 16[4]
  17. 17[5]
  18. 18[6]

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