ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Basal Metabolic Rate, Behavioral Ecology, Social Grooming
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Explain how it"s possible for natural selection to act on behavior. Describe the many similarities between human and nonhuman primate behavior. Explain why primatologists say that many nonhuman primate species have culture. Describe the ways in which we humans are unique among primates and the ways in which we aren"t. 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 result of conscious decision making. Ecological pertaining to the relationship between organism and all aspects of their environment (temperature, predators, nonpredators, vegetation, availability of food and water, types of food, disease organisms, parasites, etc. ) Behavioral ecology the study of evolution behavior, emphasizing the role of ecological factors as agents of natural selection.
