Cooperation I

Question 1

What is evolution?

Answer 1

Change in allele frequency of a population, driven by mutation, drift, and natural selection that leads to a concept of reproductive (direct) fitness

Question 2

Social evolution is concerned with the

Answer 2

Effect of one individual on the reproductive fitness of another

Question 3

What is social evolution?

Answer 3

Evolution involving social effects

Question 4

At what levels/scales can social interactions occur?

Answer 4

1. Gene
2. Genome
3. Complex cell
4. Multicellular organism
5. Society
6. Interspecies mutualism

Question 5

How are social behaviours classified with reproductive fitness

Answer 5

With effect on actor in the y, and cooperation and competition/conflict on the x

Question 6

Reproductive fitness aka

Answer 6

Direct fitness

Question 7

What is a social behaviour that confers positive reproductive fitness on both actors

Answer 7

Mutual benefit

Question 8

What is a social behaviour that confers positive reproductive fitness on one actor, but introduces competition/conflict in the other

Answer 8

Selfishness

Question 9

What is a social behaviour that confers positive reproductive fitness on one actor, but introduces negative/zero effect in the other

Answer 9

Altruism

Question 10

What is a social behaviour that confers negative effects on both actor and recipient

Answer 10

Spite

Question 11

Eusocial insects

Answer 11

Termites, bees, wasps, ants

Question 12

Why are genes a mutualism?

Answer 12

Largely, they are an egalitarian system: genes are always represented and always replicated

Question 13

What type of theory is group selection?

Answer 13

Naive