Operating Under Stress and Fear in the Military as a Lesson Concerning Difficulties for Herbivory in Nature. Factors That Lower the Need for Perfect Defensive Mechanisms Including Mimicry

Because of the complexity of situations in nature, there is an understandable and even unavoidable need to isolate factors in experimental studies. This is part of the highly fruitful minimization approach that revolutionized many areas in science, including biology. However, the critical need to isolate and examine particular functions, molecules, or aspects, may lead to results that are significant for the experimental conditions, but may sometimes be of limited or of no ecological/evolutionary relevance, or may even be misleading concerning nature’s complex reality.