ANTHRO 7 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Folivore, Canine Tooth, Sexual Selection
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Strategy: a complex of behaviors deployed in a specific functional context, such as mating, parenting, or foraging. E. g folivory = foraging strategy; monogamy = mating strategy. Product of natural selection acting on individuals to shape the motivations, reactions, preferences, capacities and choices that influence behavior. Strategies that led to greater reproductive success in ancestral populations have been favored by natural selection and represent adaptations. The effect of particular behavioral strategies on reproductive success. Behaviors are beneficial if they increase genetic fitness and costly if they reduce it. Primates are long-lived, so scientists rely on indirect measures i. e. foraging efficiency which is measured as the quantity of nutrients obtained per unit time. Primate females always provide lots of care. Shelters from elements, protects from predators, provides with food. Relative amount of parental care varies within animal kingdom. Males produce small gametes and supply only genes. Primate mothers nurse and provide extensive care.
