ANT 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Birmingham City Centre, Sexual Selection, Basal Metabolic Rate
12 Aug 2016
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Anything an organism does that involves an action in response to internal or external stimuli. Relationships between organisms and all aspects of their environment. Individuals whose behavioral phenotypes increase their reproductive fitness pass on their genes at a faster rate. The composition, size, sex ratio of a group of animals. Can affect and be effected by hierarchy. Smaller primates need more food and the different food you need changes food gathering techniques. Types of diet effects who you need around you in your group. Where do males end up in a social group. Group living evolved as an adaptive response to a number of ecological variables. Dominance hierarchies : impose some type of order. Higher ranking individuals have better access to food and mating partners. Lower ranking individuals do not have this type of access. Any act that conveys information to another individual. Body language is a lot of it. Autonomic (unintentional response, ex raised hair)
