Chapter 7

Question 1

Studies if nonhuman primate behavior?

Answer 1

May provide valuable insights into human behavioral evolution

Question 2

Dominance hierarchies?

Answer 2

Impose a certain amount of order within a group

Question 3

Mounting as an expression of dominance in baboons is believed to also serve to?

Answer 3

Defuse tense situations

Question 4

In old world monkeys, the swelling and changes in the color of the skin surrounding the female’s genital area?

Answer 4

In an indication of estrus

Question 5

Permanent male-female bonds are?

Answer 5

Not common among nonhuman primates

Question 6

Polygynous

Answer 6

Mating system in which males have several mating partners

One male-multiple female

Question 7

Polyandry

Answer 7

Mating system in which females have several mating partners

One female- multiple male

Question 8

Infanticide

Answer 8

Has been reported for a number of species

Question 9

Social structure

Answer 9

The composition, size, and sex ration of a group of animals

The result of natural selection in a specific habitat and it guides individual interactions and social relationships

Question 10

Life history traits

Answer 10

Characteristics and developmental stages that influence reproductive rates

Ex: age of sexual maturity

Question 11

According to proponents of behavioral ecology?

Answer 11

Behaviors have evolved through the operation of natural selection

Question 12

Communication

Answer 12

Any act that conveys information, in the form of a message to another individual

Question 13

Biological continuum

Answer 13

Refers to the fact that organisms are related through common ancestry and that behaviors and traits seen in one species are also seen in others to varying degrees

Question 14

Sexual selection

Answer 14

A type of natural selection that operate on only one sex within a species

Result of competition for mates and it can lead to sexual dimorphism with regard to one or more traits