BIOL 3062- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Does a job for the animal: biological functions that behaviours satisfy, looking at behaviours as traits. Beetles with two colour forms: begin with 50% spotted, 50% not spotted. Individuals vary: variation is heritable, some means of passing on the variation to the next generation, needed for change to occur in population. Some individuals survive and reproduce better than others: survival and reproduction are non-random, those with traits suitable to environment do better, highest fitness. Phenotypic plasticity: animal behaviour changes depending on the environment animal is in, decision is made by the animal itself will change with environment, most behaviours have plasticity. 1/13/17: animals do not act for good of species, focus on own survival/reproductive success. Individuals will not give up reproductive success to help another individual: altruism. Optimality models: balancing costs and fitness, how to make optimality models, 1) define the behaviour as a simple decision, ex.
