ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Limerence, Semelparity And Iteroparity, Pair Bond
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07 october 2020 - life history strategy & evolution of. Learning objectives: understand life history strategy, explain reproductive types. Iteroparity: explain the k and r reproductive strategies, describe human reproductive strategy, describe human life history strategy, discuss the adaptive models for human mating systems. Promiscuity model: understand short term vs long term mating strategies. How an organism allocates its efforts over its lifetime to maximize (reproductive) fitness. Budget energy between reproductive efforts and somatic efforts. Through the reproductive effort lens, someone who lives to an old age but never reproduces didn"t maximize fitness compared to someone who died young and had viable offspring. Suicidal reproduction, also known as kamikaze reproduction: expend all one"s resources and die in a single reproductive effort. 1: example: a praying mantis male will offer himself to the female who will consume him (literally). In low density populations, where reproductive individuals rarely come into contact with each other.
