ANTH 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sociobiology, Anthropomorphism, Sexual Swelling
5 May 2020
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Within monogamous pairs, distinguish between social monogamy and reproductive monogamy. Reproductive who mate with one another. Sociobiology study of relationship between social behavior and innate behavior. New alpha male is not killing infants (infanticide) b/c they"re not biologically related but b/c it is innate. Killing infants stops female from lactating to trigger estrus. There is no evidence of dominance hierarchy because evidence is unclear to science. No male or female reproductive strategies because evidence is unclear. Grooming comb or pick at one another"s fur to remove debris. A threat because they"re showing all their teeth. Anthropomorphizing assigning non-human animals human qualities. Estrus when female is ovulating only for a certain period of time. Present sexual swelling as a sign of estrus/ready to mate. Bonobos have sex all the time while non-human primates only mate for a certain period of time to reproduce. Word order have to go in order to make sense. Novel sentence use creativity to understand.
