BIO220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cooperative Breeding, Guppy, Eusociality
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Alarm calls: individuals call out to others warning that there are predators nearby. Cooperative breeding: individuals help others reproduce, their fitness is the benefit to the next generation, some individuals forgo their own reproduction. Eusociality: overlapping generations, individual from multiple generations at the same time, cooperative breeding. Help each other reproduce: division of labour. Colonies of individuals have really distinct jobs. The interaction with and responses to other individuals of the same species. Two types of social behaviour: altruistic. Behaviour increases another person"s individual reproductive success at a cost to one"s own reproductive success: cooperative. Game theory: developed during cold war, economics, evolutionary biology, explanation. Some number of players and a set of possible strategies. If you play a strategy against another strategy, the consequence of it is always the same for every player: hawk-dove game. Two individuals are fighting over a resource and theirs two strategies for each individual.
