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Animal Behavior Cooperation Part 2
Cooperation Part 2
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
04/14/2010

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Three characteristics of organisms with reciprocal altruisim
Definition
Good Memory
Long Life
Low dispersal
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Payoff to Defect
Definition
T = Temptation to defect.
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Payoff to Cooperate
Definition
R = Reward
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Payoff for both to Defect
Definition
P = Punishment
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Payoff for cooperate and partner defects
Definition
S = Sucker's Payoff
Term
Tit-for-tat strategy
Definition
Repeated games of Prisoner's dilemma
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Simultaneous Hermaphrodites
Definition
Organisms that have both male and female sexual organs at same time as an adult.
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Kin Selection
Definition
is the evolutionary mechanism that selects for those behaviors that increase the inclusive fitness of the donor.
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Coefficient of relatedness
Definition
the probability that particular pairs of relatives share the same allele through common descent
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Hamilton's Rule
Definition
B/C > 1/r
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B in Hamilton's Rule
Definition
Benefit to the recipient that the relative produces because of the altruistic act.
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C in Hamilton's Rule
Definition
the cost to the actor: the number of offspring it does not produce because of the altruistic act
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R in Hamilton's Rule
Definition
the coefficient of relatedness between the recipient and the actor
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Direct Fitness
Definition
measured by the number of offspring that an individual has as a result of its own efforts
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Indirect Fitness and Devaluation by?
Definition
the number of extra offspring that an individual gains by helping a relative
Devalued by multiplying by r.
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Inclusive fitness
Definition
The sum of direct and indirect fitness
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Four Methods of Discriminating Kin
Definition
Location
Familiarity
Phenotype Matching
Recognition Alleles
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4 Examples of Cooperation
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Alarm Calling
Acquiring a Mate
Breeding and Helping
Eusociality
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3 Effects of Helpers
Definition
Improve offspring survival
Increase breeder survival
Increase number of breeding attempts
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Allolactation
Definition
Communal nursing
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