Similarly, if we look at some representatives found in southern Africa, we find that there are other white lined species. These two are sister species and there's another one found in southern Africa that also has white lines. And, when we look at those we see that here's one and its sister species and then there is another species that has white lines that we know evolved those white lines independently. You can see there's less similarity in the overall color patterns but yet there are some of the same similarities.
One of the strategies of mimicry in all of this is that having similar color patterns is advantageous to both members of that mimicry complex because the predator theoretically has to learn and remember fewer color patterns and associate it with that learning experience in trying to taste these things. So fewer individuals are going to be harmed or consumed in that process. Individual members of those species would have a selective advantage in that regard and therefore would have great differential survival of their offspring which is what natural selection is all about.
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