Chapter 43 - Animal Behavior Flashcards
describes behavior that are instinctive and carried out regardless of earlier experience
Innate
describes a behavior that depends on an individuals experience
Learned
Describes self-sacrificial behavior in which an individual’s actions decrease its own fitness while increasing that of another individual.
Altruistic
Selection caused by the differential success of groups rather than individuals.
Group selection
A type of behavior that cannot readily be driven to extinction by an alternative strategy.
Evolutionary stable strategy
The exchange of favors between individuals.
Reciprocal altruism
A form of natural selection that favors the spread of alleles promoting behaviors that help close relatives.
Kin selection
____ behaviors are instinctive and carried out regardless of earlier experience.
Innate
An evolutionarily stable strategy…
cannot readily be driven to extinction by an alternative strategy.
A form of natural selection that favors the spread of alleles that promote behaviors that help close relatives.
Kin Selection
A behavior is shaped by:
both environmental and genetic factors
The ability to process information from the environment:
is characteristic of all types of organisms.
