ENVS 5112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eusociality, Fisherian Runaway, Kin Selection
24 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Behaviour ecology interactions between organisms and the environment mediated by behaviour: study of social relations. In how an individual behaves in the context of ecology. So we"re interested in things like: reproduction, foraging. When they"re out doing these things like feeding, finding a mate this is related to fitness evolution and behaviour. Natural selection acts on individuals, causing evolution within populations. Doesn"t take much of a google search to find that even the most complex organism should. Analogous to the course of history, you can"t do everything at the same time there are. Organisms need to get food, reproduce, avoid dying can"t maximize all of these. Doing any one may reduce your ability to do the other simultaneously. Strategies? behavioural traits at the same time. Strategies for maximizing fitness : flexibility and cooperation. Flexibility able to adapt to everyday life in the real world. Behavioural and morphological plasticity not being locked into a fixed pattern, being.
