BIO 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: African Bee, Brood Parasite, Natural Selection
28 Feb 2017
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Natural selection builds behaviors as well as bodies - reprise. Builds behaviors as tools just as well as it builds bodies. And what are we not saying - not that all behaviors are only genetically controlled by proportionately wise behaviors controlled by genetic information were much more than the other streams of information in non-human animals. Leaf cutter ants very sophisticated behaviors all genetically controlled. One last example of very sophisticated genetically build behaviors utlizing a videotape showing the life scylce of the cuckoo bird. Pay attention to what this newborn cuckoo does, never having learned the behavior from it real mother since it never even sees her. Look at how precisely the behaviors are executed. Non-human animals: genetically controlled information, conflicts of interests between species, inter-specific conflicts of interests. Typical predator/prey cycle evolved counter evolutionary strategies: intra species conflicts of interests between competing strategies. Very sophisticated genetically controlled behavior and conflicts of interests.
