id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6hjpwvup55datd4luxmoufplrq Phil F. Battley Beauty is only partly in the eye of the beholder 2007 2 .pdf application/pdf 1437 97 53 approaches to the study of the colour of Geoffrey Hill and Kevin McGraw, provides a state-of-the-art review of the field chapters on quantifying and analysing colours provide a reference-book-like and comprehensive chapters cover colour diversity across species, including natural selection, different avian colours and how to quantify plumage and skin colouration, thereby providing a strong link with functional chapters, regarding the diverse types and possible selective advantages of colourful chick and female ecological and functional hypotheses of avian colour A chapter on intraspecific variation in colour also beautiful cover photos, plates in Volume I are oversaturated and Volume II are undersaturated, but they nevertheless provide impressive illustrations of colouration and colour diversity within and across species (except the studying colouration and the practical information needed the origins and functions of avian colour. exciting future for the study of colouration in birds and, and plumage colouration in birds. ./cache/work_6hjpwvup55datd4luxmoufplrq.pdf ./txt/work_6hjpwvup55datd4luxmoufplrq.txt