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Original Article The Adaptive Significance of Sensory Bias in a Foraging Context: Floral Colour Preferences in the Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
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Posted by Chris_Surridge on 16 Jul 2007 at 14:37 GMT

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Posted by seanrands on 01 Aug 2007 at 21:25 GMT

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Very interesting about the adaptive significance of sensory bias Posted by ErikiLund on 25 Feb 2008 at 12:55 GMT

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This was a rather new insight to me; that sensory bias may be adaptive, at least in insects, rather than simply reflecting a historical "burden", as it is typically viewed by many fellow evolutionary biologists in the field of sexual selection.

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