Description: Peter Forbes' popular science writings
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Dazzled and Deceived tells the story of mimicry and camouflage in the natural world and how one thing got to look like another. Woven into the story is the work of naturalist who became convinced that nature's camouflage was the key to camouflage in human warfare. And then there are the artists who were fascinated by mimicry in nature and who also were drawn to camouflage in the wars. "As Forbes shows in his remarkable book . . mimicry is not just 'a fantastical tale of visual punning in nature'."