Müllerian mimicry
for the last 60~ years, a team of Russian scientists located at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Siberia have been running an experiment to domesticate foxes, specifically the wild red fox. at each generation of foxes, they picked the top 10% calmest, most pro-social ones to breed, the rest were discarded. over dozens of... See more
owlx.comIt is often contrasted with Müllerian mimicry, a form of mutually beneficial convergence between two or more harmful species. However, because the mimic may have a degree of protection itself, the distinction is not absolute. It can also be contrasted with functionally different forms of mimicry. Perhaps the sharpest contrast here is with aggressiv... See more
Henry Walter Bates • Batesian mimicry
If we can learn about human cognition, behaviour and pathology by studying insects, how does this blur the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’?