Search results for "Mimicry" - New World Encyclopedia
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- that phenomena and forms were a poor image or mimicry (mimesis) of something "higher and intelligible" [VI.I] which was the "truer ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- reaction and is termed "molecular mimicry." Usually self reactive B cells become anergic in the periphery because they fail to receive ...14 KB (1,938 words) - 20:01, 8 December 2022
- with the sudden presentation of eyespots or snake mimicry. Some species use a silk line and drop off the branches when disturbed. Some caterpillars ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- that pattern their organization in mimicry of a brain's neurons, which have been found to excel in pattern recognition. Financial institutions ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- Lewis, who was said to have the gift of mimicry, once played the stagehand in a production of Our Town, a popular play written by Thornton Wilder. ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- and her sister would often engage in mimicry, coming to the dinner table and imitating parishioners. Moorehead rarely spoke of her younger sister ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- learn to mimic sounds and words. Both singing and mimicry are more pronounced and much more perfected in males. As a whole, females rarely if ever learn ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- of images and of sounds, and not by a mimicry done with gestures and intonations of voice (whether actors' or non-actors'). One that ...22 KB (3,559 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- Fisher developed ideas on sexual selection, mimicry, and the evolution of dominance. He famously showed that the probability of a mutation increasing ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- visually showy. Some fruit flies show Batesian mimicry, bearing the colors and markings of dangerous insects, such as wasps, because it helps the fruit ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 09:54, 3 December 2023
- Even at a young age, she had a gift for mimicry. She would commit to memory Shakespearean soliloquies and relished parts in school plays. Her ...25 KB (3,800 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- * Eaton, R. L. 1976. A possible case of mimicry in larger mammals. Evolution 30(4): 853-856. * Grzimek, B., D. G. Kleiman, V. Geist, and M. C ...32 KB (4,927 words) - 07:51, 13 January 2023
- colonial mentality … through its apathy and mimicry … encourages the growth and development of racism that was typical of the colonial period … ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae (111 families, 40,000 species) Spiders are predatory, invertebrate animals with two body segments, eight ...40 KB (6,291 words) - 21:38, 7 February 2023
- * Terada, Rei. Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-1555531263 ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- form. Swang incorporates suitable theatrics and mimicry, accompanied alternatately by song and dialogue. The genre has a dialogue-oriented character ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- #039; coloration for self-protection (Batesian mimicry) (Savage 2002; Duellman 1978). Because frog toxins are extraordinarily diverse, they have ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- Mimicry is also used in music, where various instruments or voice are used to imitate nature or even urban sounds such as trains, cars, machinery ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- such as camouflage, and also in biological mimicry, for example by Peacock butterflies, whose wings bear eye markings that birds respond to as ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- creation was at most a kind of discovery or mimicry, and the idea of creation from "nothing" had no place in these philosophies and religions. ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
