BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Learning, Nikolaas Tinbergen
20 Dec 2017
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Causation of behaviour: proximate: the immediate sequence of physiological effects that leads to the behaviour. How: ultimate: the adaptive value or evolutionary origins of the observed behaviour. They were picking up the nut and burry it within the soil. They just did it which proves its within their genes: ex: spiders spinning a web. Those spiders spin a bit of webbing when they are just born and the wind carries the web and them to a different place. The parents didn"t teach them how to spin the web. They had a genetic wiring to do so. Take a bunch of rats that made the least number of mistakes and breed them together. Then take the dull rates and breed them together. Can conclude that learning a maze is partly genetic and change is genetically based: crossing of genetic strains, bees are haploid and diploids.
