1. | Introduction to animal behavior | 1. What is behavior? 2. Tinbergens four questions 3. Proximate causes vs. ultimate causes 4. Animal behavior as a hypothesis-based science |
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2. | Selection and Adaptation | 1. natural selection 2. fitness 3. adaptation |
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3. | The development of behavior | 1. the nature-nurture controversy 2. development of worker behavior in honey bees 3. gene activity 4. social environment and task specialization 5. gene-environment interaction |
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4. | learning of animals | 1. concepts of learning 2. imprinting 3. special learning 4. associative learning 5. social learning |
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5. | Aminal communication | 1. origins of a signal 2. maintenance of a signal over time |
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6. | Foraging behavior | 1. Foraging behavior of the northwestern crows 2. Optimal foraging theory 3. Social foraging 4. Spice use in humans : Darwinian puzzle? |
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9. | Habitat selection | 1. definition of terms 2. the benefits of territoriality 3. cost-benefit analysis of territoriality 4. dispersal and migration 5. sex-biased dispersal in mammals 6. costs and benefits of migration |
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10. | Evolution of mating behavior | 1. traditional view of mating behaviors 2. differences in sex roles 3. variations in mating success 4. sexual selection 5. fitness 6. why does sexual selection occur? |
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11. | Sexual selection | 1. kinds of sexual selection 2. processes of intra-sexual selection 3. processes of inter-sexual selection |
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12. | evolution of mating system | 1. mating systems 2. monogamy 3. polyandry 4. polygyny |
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13. | kin selection | 1. Beldings ground squirrel 2. Hamiltons rule 3. Coefficient of relatedness 4. Eusociality |
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14. | reciprocal altruism | 1. evolution of social behaviors 2. game theory and prisoners dilemma 3. payoff matrix 4. evolutionarily stable strategy(ESS) |
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15. | evolution of human behavior | 1. gender difference in sexual attitudes 2. reproductive challanges for women 3. female mate preferences 4. reproductive challenges for men 5. male mate preferences |