BIOL 307 Study Guide - Final Guide: Melatonin, Naturalistic Fallacy, Normal-Form Game

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Darwin + = instinct anecdotes, emotions/intelligence instinct and tried to show animals can produce human behavior (clever hans) Behaviorist (nurture) revolution = experiments on learning. Ethology (nature) not capable of quantitative predictions = observations and experiments on instinct; chicks and red spots extreme versions better therefore basis for sex selective traits; lamb/mother imprint expt by lorenz control because 0 experience. Behave ecol/sociobiol = cost/benefit predictions on behavioral strategies crash of ethology because of bee dance! altruism. Behavioural ecology: function use of evol and evol processes to explain adaptive significance of behavior patterns, predict ecological patterns, empirical/comparative analyses relating behavior to envt. Problems in studying behavior: anthropomorphism (animals as people), anthropocentrism (visual tests for rats when smells better), anecdotes (single observation used as evidence), design and interpret studies (consideration of alternate hypotheses) Keep in mind parsimony most simple explanation unless not possible. Ethogram: catalogue of behavior patterns of a species.

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Easy evolution questions. State true or false and explain why it'strue or false please, and thanks

1) When evolution occurs we would expect different regions withsimilar enviornments to all contain the same mix of plants andanimals.
2) Artificial selection is not an evolutionary mechanism.
3) The effects of mutations on the evolutionary success oforganisms are always unfavorable.
4) in divergent evolution, two or more species grow closer togetherin behaviorand other traits.
5) The theory of punctuated equilibrium is accepeted as the correctexplanation for the pace of evolutionary change.

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One common misconception about evolution is that individual organisms evolve. It is true that natural selection acts on individuals: Each organism's traits affect its survival and reproductive success compared with those of other individuals. But the evolutionary impact of natural selection is only apparent in the changes in a population of organisms over time.

Using at least two examples, explain how the process of evolution is revealed by the imperfections of living things. Provide evidence based facts.

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Bees, ants, and other social insects are able to detect and will remove dead organisms from their colony. Scientists have analyzed decaying insects and found they give off compounds, mostly oleic acid and linoleic acid - as they decay. You know that social insects display some of the most complex behaviors in response to environmental stimuli of any other animal groups. In lab today, you learned that it is possible to explain behaviors based on anthropomorphic causes, but that scientists base explanaitons on proximate and ultimate causes. Using bees as the experimental animals, propose explanations (hypotheses) based on these three perspectives - anthropomorphic, proximate, and ultimate - and then propose a researh project for those hypotheses that can be tested scientifically.

a) Anthromorphic causes:

- possible research project:

b) proximate causes:

- possible research project:

c) ultimate causes:

Could an experiment similar to this be used to investigate ancestors of insects and isopods and to answer questions about when these groups diverged?

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BIOL 307 Study Guide - Final Guide: Melatonin, Naturalistic Fallacy, Normal-Form Game

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