01:070:101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Basal Metabolic Rate, Behavioral Ecology, Neocortex

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: 01:070:101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Behavior: anything organisms do that involves action in response to internal or external stimuli. The response of an individual, group, or species to its environment. Such responses may or may not be deliberate, and they aren"t necessarily the results of conscious decision making, as in single-celled organisms, insects, and many other species. Behavior, especially in mammals and birds, is extremely complex because it"s been shaped over evolutionary time by countless interactions between genetic and environmental process. Free-ranging: pertaining to non-captive animals living in their natural habitat. The earliest studies of nonhuman primates in their natural habitats began with an american psychologist named rober yerkes, who, in the late 1920s and 1930s, sent students into the field to study gorillas, chimps, and howler monkeys. Social structures: the composition, size, and sex ratio of a group of animals. Social structures are the results of natural selection in specific habitats, and they influence individual interactions and social relationships.