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Lecture 3 Flashcards

1
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Natural selection works at the __________ level.

A

individual

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2
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Who does evolution favor?

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Individuals that have some survival advantage.

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3
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Evolution works to increase an individual’s _________.

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fitness

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4
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Describe kin selection.

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Natural selection should also favor behavior that increase the survival of close relatives.

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5
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Give an example of kin selection in the wild.

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Cooperative hunting in cheetahs (A cheetah will kill and give prey to a relative like a sister)

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6
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Define direct fitness.

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The number of viable offspring produced, plus any effects that might have a positive effect on successive generations produced by direct offspring.

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7
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Define indirect fitness.

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The increased reproductive success of an individual’s genetic relatives and ay lineal descendants of offspring.

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8
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Define inclusive fitness.

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The sum of an individual’s direct and indirect fitness

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9
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What kind of fitness caused a paradigm shift in ethology?

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Hamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness.

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10
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Hamilton’s theory allowed ethologists to make predictions about what?

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When and where cooperative behavior may exist. Helped to explain confounding instances of cooperation (helpers at nest, cooperative hunting, alarm calling).

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11
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Define learning

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Typically occurs at the individual level but can have components that are favored by natural selection.

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12
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What does individual learning do?

A

Alters the frequency of behaviors displayed within the lifetime of an individual.
(Where food patches are, where shelter is, and where predators are likely)

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13
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Give a proximate effect of learning.

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Changes behavior over a single lifetime

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14
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Give an ultimate effect of learning

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Natural selection would favor the ability of individuals to acquire specific types of information.

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15
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Describe cultural transmission?

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A new or learned behavior is passed from person to person, can occur within or between species.

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16
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Define social learning.

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Process where cultural transmission occurs.

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17
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Define social facilitation.

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Animals learn by watching other individuals perform behavior

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18
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Define social enhancement.

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The presence of other individuals draws attention and creates an opportunity for other members of the group to learn new behavior.

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19
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Individual learning never makes it across ___________.

A

generations

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20
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__________ __________ is required for learning by individuals to pass to the next generation.

A

Cultural transmission

21
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Cultural transmission has _________ and _________ generation effects

A

within and between

22
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Give an example for social learning

A

Norway rats:
They’re communal and lack ability to vomit
So, must be sure that new or novel foods are safe.

23
Q

Individuals have a survival advantage if they’re predisposed for what?

A

If they’re predisposed to learn specific types of information.

24
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The specific content of the learned info may be what?

A

May be time or situationally specific. There’s no benefit to having info hard wired.

25
Q

Some forms of communication do not seem to require ________.

A

learning

26
Q

Individuals that come with what will have a survival advantage?

A

individuals that come with built in preferences (primary tastes).

27
Q

What are components of communication?

A

Sender/receiver
Signal/message
Channel/noise
Information/redundancy

28
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Define behavior.

A

COORDINATED RESPONSE OF THE WHOLE LIVING ORGANISM TO INTERNAL AND/OR EXTERNAL STIMULI

29
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What are the 3 principles components of communication as outlines by Marler?

A

Non-constancy
Specialization
Internal processing

30
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Define non-constancy.

A

Communication signals have a clear start and endpoint.

31
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Define specialization.

A

Adaptations for signal production, transmission or reception

32
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Define internal processing.

A

Signals must be picked up ad interpreted by the receiver.

33
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Define communication according to Darwin and Krebs.

A

Communication is not so much an exchange of information as manipulation of the receiver.
In manipulative situations natural selection will develop an arms race between signaler and receiver.

34
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When can communication become honest?

A

If both parties have something to gain from exchanged information.

35
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Selection pressures should favor what?

A

Economy in honest signaling

Exaggeration and complexity in manipulative signals.

36
Q

What animal is responsible for 70-80% of the world’s food supply?

A

Honeybees

37
Q

Why do honeybee workers have shortened lifespans?

A

Typically die from exhaustion
Drones don’t reproduce
Only the queen reproduces

38
Q

What kind of foragers are honeybees?

A

Single crop foragers

39
Q

What do honeybees do with the gathered nectar?

A

It’s brought to the queen to support larva growth and health of queen

40
Q

What kind of genetics to honeybees possess?

A

Haplodiploid genetics

41
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Describe haplodiploidy.

A

Unfertilized eggs produce males (haploid)

Fertilized eggs produce females (diploid)

42
Q

Female honeybee offspring receive genes from…?

A

Diploid mom

Haploid dad

43
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Extend the reasoning as to how fathers are related to daughter by r=1

A

The daughter receives a pure copy of dad’s genes, because he only has one to give (haploid)

44
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Extend the reasoning as to why daughters are related to dads by r= .5

A

Daughters are diploid and their genetics come from mom (diploid) and dad (haploid)

45
Q

Sisters are related by r = ?

A

.75

46
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Sisters are related to brothers by r = ?

A

.25

47
Q

What did Karl von Frisch study?

A

Language of honeybees. Used marked bees to identify how honey bees communicate.

48
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How do honeybees communicate?

A

Honeybees communicate food locations by dancing (waggle dance).

49
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Describe the waggle dance.

A

The angle between the straight line part of dance and sun’s position in the sky signals location of the food source. Length of waggle indicated distance from hive.

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