ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anisogamy, Haplodiploidy, Eusociality
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The goal is to continue your genes into future generations. Adaptive value is explaining your reproductive success: the ability for you to reproduce successfully and for your offspring to do the. Where animals vary, and where those variations are at least partly inherited, the less successful varieties will be eliminated, and the more successful will become relatively numerous same. A successful organisms traits must be passed on to descendents. Those descendents must reach maturity and reproduce. Wilson studied ant behavior: related those behaviors back to evolutionary behavior in humans, animals are trying to optimize their reproductive success. The study of behavior based on darwinian paradigm. Basis in population genetics and evolutionary theory. * in order for sociobiology to be true the sexual behavior must be seen cross culturally in the human species : many different sexual behaviors (what one culture finds sexually stimulating may not be the same for another).
