ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Estrous Cycle, Advantageous, Sexual Selection
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Scientists study behavior in free-ranging primates from an ecological. Behavioral ecology is the study of the evolution of behavior, emphasizing. Behavior is anything organisms do that involves action in response to internal or external stimuli; the response of an individual, group, or species to it"s environment. This is called behavioral ecology. the role of ecological factors as agents of natural selection. Behaviors and behavioral patterns have been favored because they increase the reproductive fitness of individuals in specific environmental contexts. Therefore, behaviors are adaptations to environmental circumstances that occurred in the past as well as in the present. So, behaviors have evolved through the process of natural selection and are therefore subject to natural selection in the same way that physical traits are. Behavior is a product of complex interactions between genetics and environmental factors. Social structure refers to the composition, size, and sex ratio of a group of animals.
