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Behaviours Ecology II

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Decks in this class (11)

1 - Animal Contests
What are the factors influencing ...,
When is fighting more likely 2,
When should you give up on a cont...
12  cards
2 - Sex and the sex ratio
What is sexual reproduction 1,
How do limits on reproduction dif...,
What are the main reproductive li...
14  cards
3 - Sexual Selection
What is sexual selection intrasex...,
In intrasexual selection what are...,
What do females gain from interse...
5  cards
4 - Mating systems: mammals
List the four most prominent form...,
Describe mammalian mating systems 2,
What determines if females are so...
14  cards
5 - Mating systems: birds
What is the dominant social matin...,
Why aren t female birds always ro...,
What factors favour monogamy 3
13  cards
6 - Parental care
What are three main components fo...,
What are 5 parts of parental care 2,
What is the trade off in parental...
14  cards
7 - Communication
What is predicted when offspring ...,
What s a signal 2,
What are the five components of a...
14  cards
8 - Kin selection
In altruism can you completely gi...,
True or false altruism ends up wi...,
If a population has altruists and...
15  cards
9 - Reciprocity
What is reciprocal altruism recip...,
Describe three types of reciproci...,
When is an altruist benefiting 3
14  cards
10 - Cooperative breeding in vertebrates
What are the two types of coopera...,
What are forms of helping at the ...,
Do helpers actually help to incre...
8  cards
12 - Human behavioural ecology
Psychohistory Darwinian Gastronomy
13  cards

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