COTT, Hugh B.: Adaptive Coloration in Animals. , London: Methuen & Co., 1957.

Reprint with minor corrections. "The facts of cryptic, warning and mimetic coloration pose searching questions to the geneticist, and demand a recasting of many current views on the efficacy and mechanisms of selections....With the aid of his[Cott's] own remarkable drawings and photographs, he demonstrates how nature - in this case via the operation of natural selection - employs the most elaborateoptical-psychological devices to enhance conspicuousness where conspicuousness is advantageous, to reduce it where obliteration is the biological aim." Pp.xxxii/508/48 black & white photo plates to end, colour frontispiece + 84 figure illustrations, top edge green, minor spotting to closed page edges. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG. (Book ref. 37462)  £50.00

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