Cool paper on a question that I’ve wondered about for a while. Since the evolution of mimicry is dependent on the experience of predators and not on spatial proximity of mimics and models per se, allopatric mimicry can evolve when predators are migratory: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Allopatric coevolution: Migratory predators may facilitate mimicry between geographically nonoverlapping species | PNAS
A natural assumption in evolutionary biology is that to coevolve, species must interact with each other and should therefore co-occur. However, man...
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