BIOC54H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Natural Selection, Heritability, European Cooperation In Science And Technology

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Evolutionarily stable strategy - set of rules of behaviour that when adopted by a certain proportion of the population can"t be replaced by any alternative strategy. know how to breed animals, when will animals attack, what characteristics are needed in nature reserves to save endangered species, humane way to house animals, stop damage by pest species Learned it was a good strategy (less likely to be killed by predators) developmental processes (ontogeny [see others doing it so you do it too], genetics) eg - possums play dead because the sight of a predator triggers a physiological response that causes them to lie down and remain motionless. why questions - evolutionary history (origins, change over time) effects on fitness (current or recent function) eg - possums play dead because over evolutionary time, those possums that did play dead were more fit than those that did not www. notesolution. com.

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Consider the following articles, and answer the questions below.Mitchell MD, Chivers DP, Brown GE, Ferrari MCO. 2016. Living on theedge: How does environmental risk affect the behavioural andcognitive ecology of prey? Anim Behav. 115: 185-192.

Greig EI and Webster MS. 2014. How do novel signals originate?The evolution of fairy-wren songs from predator to displaycontexts. Anim Behav. 88: 57-65.

PetrÅ¯ M, Å pinka M, CharvÃ¡tovÃ¡ V, Lhota S. 2009. Revisiting playelements and self handicapping in play: A comparative ethogram offive Old World monkey species. J Comp Psychol. 123(3): 250-263.

Answer these questions :

1. Which of the above studies examined proximate causes ofbehaviour? What evidence do the authors provide to support youranswer?

2. Which of the above studies examined ultimate causes ofbehaviour? What evidence do the authors provide to support youranswer?

3. Which of the above studies examine the evolution of abehaviour? What evidence do the authors provide to support youranswer?

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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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Animal Ecology Question:
Define the terms EVOLUTIONARY STABLE STRATEGY, FREQUENCY DEPENDENCY, & ULTIMATE EXPLANATION and give a brief example of the concept.

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