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The Development and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

By H. Frederik Nijhout

By H. Frederik Nijhout

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Part of Smithsonian Series in Comparative Evolutionary Biology

Category: Science

Paperback $37.95

Aug 17, 1991 | ISBN 9780874749175

The Development and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns by H. Frederik Nijhout
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About The Development and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

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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Category: Science

Paperback | $37.95
Published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Aug 17, 1991 | 322 Pages | 7 x 10 | ISBN 9780874749175
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Perhaps the most brilliant morphology book published in many years. . . . This is a paradigmatic book for the study of morphologic variation and evolution (Günter P. Wagner Quarterly Review Of Biology)

The foremost worker on the development of butterfly wing patterns, H. Frederik Nijhout has painted in brilliant verbal pictures and accompanying illustrations a superb analysis of the development and evolution of butterfly wing patterns. . . . Overall, the body of work summarized in this book can fairly be said to represent the most direct, comprehensive, and integrated exploration of development in morphological evolution in any group of organisms. (Thomas C. Emmel Tropical Lepidoptera)

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