Some of these differences give the animals adaptive advantages — brown fur is better than white for camouflage, for instance — but many monkeys sport very complicated, multicolored patterns. (sciencemag.org)
«I think it's an elegant demonstration of a critically important phenomenon: linking of a specific trait to a specific adaptive advantage,» says Molly Jahn, a geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (sciencemag.org)