social behaviour

Question 1

what is group aggression used for

Answer 1

to determine who the dominant members are. avoids real conflict. can be used as a ploy for mutiny.

Question 2

what is a layered society?

Answer 2

individuals make up smaller subunits in which they act differently to when they are in a crowd.

Question 3

what are the live;s of heterospecific interaction?

Answer 3

parasitic, commensal, symbiotic.

Question 4

what is kin selection?

Answer 4

an animal will bee more helpful to a member off their immediate family as it will further the chances of their genes being passed on.

Question 5

what is the formula for working out kin selection?

Answer 5

C/B

Question 6

what is reciprocal altruism?

Answer 6

favours will be exchanged over a long period of time.

Question 7

what its the biological market theory?

Answer 7

The idea that commodities are traded between conspecifics to maintain this process of altruism

Question 8

what is the evolutionary stable strategy?

Answer 8

the idea that once prevalent in a population, beneficial behaviours will, like alleles, remain prevalent in a population.