Is beauty beyond the eye of the butterfly?

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About the Authors

Richard M. Merrill

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, LMU, Munich, Germany

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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