PSYC 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Behavioral Ecology, Mate Choice, Developmental Biology
16 May 2016
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Intersection subdisciplines - behavioral ecology and socioecology: darwin"s tangled bank - explaining variability in organisms in terms of variability in their environments, assumptions in socioecological analyses, comparative approaches to the study of adaptation: Crook on weaver birds: jarman on african ungulates, general correlations between food source, predation, sociality, mating strategy, sexual. Dimorphism and parenting: predation - hamilton"s selfish herd hypothesis, mating strategies: Ecological correlates of monogamy and polygyny: male-male competition - territories, displays and direct confrontation, sexual dimorphism - general trends, humans: Sexual dimorphism - anatomy, physiology, lifespan, psychological traits. Human mating systems - adelphic polyandry and ecological factors. Genetics genetic diversity, diversity in gene networks. Developmental biology variations in morphology, anatomy, physiology. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth with. Reproduction; inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a ratio of.
