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'Forbes... sees with lovely clarity that nature, like art, is a bricoleur, a tinkerer, and that the thrill of it all is not in a stately grand design - as Darwin understood, there never has been any such thing, it's all expendable - but in life's multiple choices, chances and small-scale experiments: so many possibilities'- Guardian 'The natural armoury of deceptions as depicted in Dazzled and Deceived is astounding, and the history of research into the phenomenon is just as surprising. Starting in the 1850s in the Amazon rainforest, Forbes presents an authoritative account of research into mimicry and brings it bang up to date' - New Scientist 'A revealing and entertaining review of mimicry and camouflage in nature, art, and war ...' - Natural History

'Forbes... sees with lovely clarity that nature, like art, is a bricoleur, a tinkerer, and that the thrill of it all is not in a stately grand design - as Darwin understood, there never has been any such thing, it's all expendable - but in life's multiple choices, chances and small-scale experiments: so many possibilities'- Guardian 'The natural armoury of deceptions as depicted in Dazzled and Deceived is astounding, and the history of research into the phenomenon is just as surprising. Starting in the 1850s in the Amazon rainforest, Forbes presents an authoritative account of research into mimicry and brings it bang up to date' - New Scientist 'A revealing and entertaining review of mimicry and camouflage in nature, art, and war ...' - Natural History

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