ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Courtship Display, Sexual Selection, Alfred Russel Wallace
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Lecture # 2 : basics of evolutionary theory & sexual selection. Podcast report zoom help hours through the month of november, ta hours are posted. No readings for next module, just watching a film, why sex? - narrated by liam neeson, have to google it because library did not allow the direct link to be posted on quercus. Will discuss how evolution affects sexual behaviour. Anthropologists is always looking at an holistic approach. Learning objectives: you will be able to explain the 4 ways to ask the question why? about a behavior in biology. Phylogeny (ancestral: you will understand the concepts of. Cuckoldry & philandering: you will understand the difference between. There are 4 causations (poup) to answer the why from a biological perspective: Direct mechanisms (e. g. physiology) increase in testosterone, increase in vocalization: proximate, ultimate, ontogenic (cultural teaching/ development, phylogenic. Adaptive explanation meaning reproductive consequence, passed on to the next.
