In the case of butterflies, it pays to look like your neighbor.
New information about long-winged butterflies in Costa Rica is showing how the importance of “mimicry” and the
butterflies’ natural promiscuity has led to interbreeding and the creation of new species that look very much alike, according to a study led by University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, Marcus R. Kronforst.
“In evolutionary biology, mimicry is the similarity of one species to another which protects one or both.This simil
