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Why do animals, especially males, have so many different colours?

Science Centric | 3 November 2009 11:23 GMT

Why do so many animal species - including fish, birds and insects - display such rich diversity in coloration and other traits? In new research, Gregory Grether, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Christopher Anderson, who recently earned his doctorate in Grether's laboratory, offer an answer...

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