BIOL 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Learning
25 Aug 2016
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Scientific method: involves scientific observations, movements, and experiments and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Types of analysis: proximate analysis: focused on immediate causes a. Includes: mechanisms and development: ultimate analysis: evolutionary forces that have shaped a trait over time a. Is coordinated responses involving whole living organism to internal and external stimuli. Three foundations: natural selection: traits that confer highest relative reductive success on offspring and are heritable can pass down across generations. Individual learning: after frequency of behaviour displayed within organism lifetime: cultural transmission: affects type of animal behaviour exhibited and frequency with which it occurs, social learning: animals learn by copying others behaviour. Indirect fitness: impacts of individual has on survival and reproduction of relatives d. Inclusive fitness: sum of direct and indirect fitness, ability to pass genes to next generation: theoretical approach: generation of some sort of mathematical model of the world.
