ZOO 4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mate Choice, Heritability
23 Mar 2016
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How does behaviour promote and animal"s ability to survive and reproduce? (ulimate) How does an animal use its sensory and motor abiliies to acivate and modify behavioural paterns? (proximate) How does an animal"s behaviour change during growth? (proximate) How does an animal"s behaviour compare with that of other species and what does it tell us about the origin of its behaviour? (ulimate) Proximate causes: understanding what is responsible for operaing a behaviour, how quesions. How are colours acquired and maintained: addresses. Ulimate causes: understanding the evoluionary causes of behaviour, why quesions. Why are colours acquired and maintained: addresses. Selecive processes shaping a trait (mate choice, honest signaling) Natural history: descripive what"s , oten one word answer. Proximate causes vs. ulimate causes: every hypothesis is subsumed under this framework, there are muliple types of correct answers, compeiion between hypotheses occurs only within, not among levels. Proximate: young female bats learn their calls from adults surrounding them.
