The evolutionary reasons why lorikeet parrots have green backs and colourful faces

From: “Macroevolutionary bursts and constraints generate a rainbow in a clade of tropical birds”, J.T. Merwin, G.F. Seeholzer and B.T. Smith (2020), BMC Evolutionary Biology 20:32 Animal colouration is one of the most interesting phenomena in evolutionary biology, since it varies so much between different animals and is influenced by such a wide variety of …

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