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Unpalatable evolutionary principles

Experiments involving rye straws and almonds as prey, and great tits as predators, unveil forces operating on the origin of warning signals in nature.

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Guilford, T., Rowe, C. Unpalatable evolutionary principles. Nature 382, 667–668 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/382667a0

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