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Owen, Denis Frank was born on April 4, 1931 in London. Son of Frank William and Rose Alexandra (Nightingale) Owen.
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Many organisms, to avoid being noticed, combine color and shape to create elaborate and highly effective disguises. Some have evolved uncanny likenesses to such elements of their environment as leaves and rocks. Others use color and shape in more spectacular displays simply to frighten a predator or to warn that they are poisonous. In turn, and to complicate matters for their enemies, some edible animals have evolved a striking likeness to poisonous animals that use color as a warning. Though such camouflage and mimicry is most widely and brilliantly evident among the insects—where sometimes only the experienced naturalist can see through the deception—it has also evolved in plants and several groups of vertebrates, including birds, snakes, and salamanders. Camouflage and Mimicry describes the remarkably varied attempts of species to deceive their predators and prey. It illustrates a group of strategies which help to increase an individual's chances of survival.
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Owen, Denis Frank was born on April 4, 1931 in London. Son of Frank William and Rose Alexandra (Nightingale) Owen.
Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1962. Doctor of Science, Oxford Brookes University, 1996.
Teaching fellow University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1958-1962. Lecturer Makerere University, Uganda, 1962-1966. Professor University Sierra Leone, Freetown, 1966-1970, Lund University, Sweden, 1970-1972, Oxford Brookes University, 1972-1996.
Distinguished visiting professor University Massachusetts, 1974.
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Fellow Linnean Society London.
Married Jennifer Bak, July 12, 1958 (divorced May 1994). Children: Richard, Susan. Married Diana Clare Anglias, June 25, 1994.