Alfred Russel Wallace

To the ordinary observer the colours of the various kinds of molluscs, insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals,
appear to have no use, and to be distributed pretty much at random. … the idea that we should ever be able
to give a satisfactory reason why one creature is white and another black, why this caterpillar is green and
that one brown, … would seem to most persons both presumptuous and absurd. We propose to show, however,
that in a large number of cases the colours of animals are of the greatest importance to them, and that sometimes
even their very existence depends upon their peculiar tints.

ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - THE PROTECTIVE COLOURS OF ANIMALS


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