BIO 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Conifer Cone, Food Desert, Lightning
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Proximate reason: ultimate causation: 2nd law requires us to eat since we"re non-equilibrium chemical system if we don"t eat = equilibrium + death, ex) infants don"t need to understand 2nd law of thermodynamics to eat. They just need proximate information: proximate causation: immediate cause of the behavior bad to figure out ultimate, neurological/physiological response, thoughts interpreting that response. The chimp can click them with lightning speed. World: cheetah + chimp process genetic information and info from mom, personal experience from environment, humans get the information from cultural information. Idk: middle eastern rats transmit a sophisticated pine cone-stripping behavior culturally, rural pine-forest rats can strip pine-cones. The urban rats can"t do it: bring adults rats and put in same cage. Urban rats never learn: experiment: switch pups at birth. Does genotype of mother lead to behavior: pups raised by genetically/culturally different mothers, pine stripping behavior is a cultural behavior.
