BIO 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Video Lesson, Hymenoptera, Natural Selection
14 Jun 2018
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Topic 7: Kinship independent social cooperation—the fundamental unique human adaptation
Key Terms:
1. Pedigree
2. Social breeding
3. Conflict of interest
4. Cheater
5. Free rider
6. Conspecific
7. Selfish herd
8. Group selection fallacy
9. Cost of coercion
. Laheste’s “uae La
11. Proximal killing
12. Remote killing
13. Kinship-independent social cooperation
KEY CONCEPT QUESTION: In Chapter 5 in Death from a Distance and in the TOPIC 7 lecture video, we explored
the ultimate origin or cause of uniquely human kinship-independent social cooperation. We found it fruitful to
compare this human social cooperation to the social behavior of large-colony hymenoptera (like honey bees
or leaf cutter ants, for example). Which of the following is the most accurate and complete statement of the
lesson we learned from this human/hymenopteran comparison?
a. Both human and large-colony hymenopteran social cooperation is ultimately limited in scale exclusively by
the kin-selected behaviors universal to all animals.
b. Both human and large-colony hymenopteran social cooperation is ultimately limited in scale by the
cognitive capacity (intelligence) of individual animals.
c. Both human and large-colony hymenopteran social cooperation is ultimately limited in scale by the
communicative capacity (language-like capabilities) of individual animals.
d. Both human and large-colony hymenopteran social cooperation is ultimately limited in scale by the extent
to which the universal non-kin conflict of interest problem can be controlled
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Document Summary
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