If the distribution of the magpie-robin happened to coincide with that of the magpie, I have no doubt whatever that zoologists of the school of Wallace would cite the dhayal as an example of protective mimicry.
Professor Poulton does not seem to see that the researches of Mr. Swynnerton are altogether subversive of the theory of protective mimicry.
One of the fetishes of the present day is the theory of protective mimicry.
Theory of Protective Mimicry We are not at all sure that no facts are against the theory of protective mimicry.
Natural selection, as we shall see, fails to account for the origin of what is known as protective mimicry.
In the first two cases they are said to be warningly coloured, and in the last they are cited as examples of protective mimicry.
This is an anticipation of the principle of protective mimicry, so much discussed in these days by Darwin, Wallace, and others, and which was not even mentioned by Lamarck.
If naturalists could show that this cuckoo derived any benefit from its resemblance to a pheasant, I doubt not that they would hold it up as an example of protective mimicry.
Protective mimicry is usually said to have been brought about by the action of natural selection.
Our fashionable theorists have availed themselves of this brown and yellow to cite the Volucella as a striking instance of protective mimicry.
They had not a patch of yellow about them and certainly had no claim to protective mimicry.
At that moment alone, protective mimicry would be convenient.
Protective mimicry,'" mused the girl thoughtfully, leaning back in her chair and clasping her hands above her head.
Chapter V Protective Mimicry "Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt, Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
Because this adaption of one form to another evidently serves the purpose of defense this phenomenon has been called 'protective mimicry.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protective mimicry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
