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- In evolutionary biology, Gilbertian mimicry is a rare type of mimicry in plants involving only two species, a host or prey animal which is the mimic, and...
- colony. Most of the models here are eusocial insects, prin****lly ants. Gilbertian mimicry is bipolar, involving only two species. The potential host (or...
- out its logical consequences, however absurd. Mike Leigh describes the "Gilbertian" style as follows: "With great fluidity and freedom, [Gilbert] continually...
- the other species are attracted to a fake fruit to distribute seeds; Gilbertian, where a plant has structures like butterfly eggs, dissuading egg-laying;...
- Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American biologist, known for his discovery of Gilbertian mimicry. Lawrence E. Gilbert was born in Laredo (Texas) in 1942. His father...
- be difficult to imagine. Mr Oscar Wilde has decorated a humour that is Gilbertian with innumerable spangles of that wit that is all his own". The Importance...
- consequences, however absurd. Director and playwright Mike Leigh described the "Gilbertian" style as follows: With great fluidity and freedom, [Gilbert] continually...
- Vanbrugh and Evelyn Millard could not be bettered and caught the required Gilbertian tone. The Observer remarked on the "rapturous amu****t" of the audience...
- topsy-turvy moments; and Mr. Hammerstein attends very skilfully to the lurking Gilbertian humour." Less favorably, in the Daily Express, John Barber called the...
- wrote, "we secretly marvelled at the naturalness and ease with which [the Gilbertian quips and absurdities] were said and done. For until then no living soul...