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| Describe Proximate and Ultimate causation |
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Proximate is How an action happened
Ultimate is why an action happened |
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| Describe Fixed Action Patterns |
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| Innate response to a stimuli |
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Describe Condition-Dependent Patterns
2 ways
What does it prove? |
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Response changed through learning and environmental conditions
Proves that animals make choices |
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What does Females need to experience to become fertile in a sense?
2 things |
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1. Spring-like light and temperatures
2. Breeding males |
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| movement of a population to get food |
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| self-sacrificing behaviors |
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Describe Hamilton's Rule
3 conditions? |
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Br>C
equation to see if altruistic behavior will be passed on
1. high benefit to receipient's fitness
2. receipient is a close relative
3. low cost to altruist's fitness |
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| Describe Inclusive Fitness |
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| Direct and Indirect fitness |
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| Describe Reciprocal Altruism |
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| Helping those who have helped you |
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