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Adaptations

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Biological traits or characteristics that help an individual survive and reproduce in its habitat

  • the working parts of evolution, the functional systems and subsystems
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Adaptations perform specific functions that make an organism better suited to its _________

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Environment

  • adaptations exist to help one thrive in their physical environment
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What are the 4 basic mechanisms of evolution

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Natural selection
Mutation
Genetic drift
Migration

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Natural selection

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The differential survival and reproduction of organisms as a result of the heritable differences b/w them

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What are the 3 essential components of natural selection?

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  1. There are significant individual differences
    - within any population, there is variation among individuals for any given characteristic
  2. These differences affect individuals’ chances of surviving and reproducing, causing differential reproduction
  3. The traits that give rise to differential reproduction have a genetic basis, meaning they are heritable
    - the offspring of successful reproducers will resemble their parents with respect to these variable characteristics
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_________ __________ is the process through which natural selection operates

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Selective transmission

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________ heritable traits are selectively transmitted across generations

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Favourable

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The selective transmission of heritable traits results in ____________ changes

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Population

  • the most suitable traits will be passed on to the next generation
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The specific characteristics that are best adapted for survival and reproduction are going to be reproduced at ________ rates

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Higher

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Stabilizing selection

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Selection against any sort of departure from the species-typical adaptive design

  • this sort of selection tends to keep traits stable over generations
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Readily observable natural selection is _______ and ________

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Minimal and reversible

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Fitness (biology meaning)

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About reproductive success, not physical fitness

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Darwinian fitness

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Average reproductive success of a genotype relative to alternative genotypes

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Evolution

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Change in gene frequencies over generations, in part due to the introduction of new gene variants via mutation

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Natural selection can act on mate-finding to produce ________ selection

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Sexual

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Evolutionary pressures change across ______ generations

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Successive

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Sexual selection

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The component of natural selection that acts on traits that influence an organism’s ability to obtain a mate, resulting in differential reproductive success

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Female choice & combat success are subtypes of _________ selection

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Sexual

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Inter-sexual selection

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Involves an interaction between males and females

  • female choice (mate choice preferences)
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Example of inter-sexual selection

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Peacocks

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Intra-sexual selection

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Involves success in combat with other males

  • male competition
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Example of intra-sexual selection

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Elks

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Mate choice preferences

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  • female choice picks out males with the best resistance to diseases
  • best genes for being healthy
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Species can be identified by different species-typical ___________

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Behaviours

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What are the 4 parts of species-typical behaviour
- movement (topography) - habitat preference - group size - social system
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Natural selection favours the "__________ gene"
Selfish
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What is it called when it has: Positive effect on actor's well-being Positive effect on recipient's well-being
Cooperation
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What is it called when it has: Positive effect on actor's well-being Negative effect on recipient's well-being
Selfish
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What is it called when it has: Negative effect on actor's well-being Positive effect on recipient's well-being
Altruism
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What is it called when it has: Negative effect on actor's well-being Negative effect on recipient's well-being
Spite
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Adaptations must increase ___________ of the gene, not necessarily the group
Success - selection must be good for the gene, regardless of how it acts on the group
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_____________ in groups increase personal success of obtaining food
Foraging
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There is a trade-off between foraging for ________ and scanning for _________
There is a trade-off between foraging for FOOD and scanning for PREDATORS - foraging in groups ensures more time for foraging over scanning
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Altruism
Behaviour in which the actor incurs a cost to provide a benefit to a recipient - altruism can not thrive if it cannot be passed down genetically
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Altruists ______ their own fitness when helping others
Decrease
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Eusocial Hymenoptera
In this level of social organization, most individuals spend their lives serving the colony without reproducing - includes all ants, some bees and some wasps
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Genes for altruism could be successful if they helped _____________ copies of themselves
Identical *Known as INCLUSIVE FITNESS
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Direct fitness
Fitness from personal reproduction
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Indirect fitness
Fitness from the reproduction of close genetic relatives
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Direct fitness + indirect fitness = ?
Inclusive fitness
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What is Hamilton's Rule's equation?
rB > C r = the relatedness of the individuals - multiplied by the probability that the recipients actually have identical copies of the same gene or coefficient of relatedness B = the reproductive benefit to the recipients C = the reproductive cost to the actor
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How is fitness measured?
Measured by the number of the copies of its genes left in the next generation
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Probability that actor and recipient share gene in question
Relatedness - depends on how genes were inherited -
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What is the relatedness to parents?
About 50% to either parent
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What is the relatedness to full siblings?
About 50%
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What does Hamilton's Rule predicts?
Predicts theoretical adaptive behaviours
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What explains cases of aggression and abuse in humans?
Relatedness
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Cues of kinship
- Mother's association - Co-residence with other children
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Alarm calls
Altruistic warning of approaching predators - females give calls more often when they live near kin - males leave kin early and almost never give alarm calls
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Phenotype matching
An evaluation of relatedness b/w individuals based on an assessment of phenotypic similarity
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Direct reciprocity
Situations in which individuals help each other and both benefits
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Indirect reciprocity
Occurs when individuals help others who have helped others - when helping others, you get a good reputation for yourself and overall will get more help from neighbors compared to individuals who never helped at all - people are more generous and less likely to break the rules when they are observed by others
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What does evolutionary psychology reveal about human behaviour today?
1. adaptations from the evolutionary past continue to affect our behaviours today 2. sex differences in reproductive success drive mate selection preference 3. outcome variance can drive different solutions to the same problems
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Psychological mechanisms + input from environment = ?
Behaviour
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What are the different adaptive problems different sexes face?
- metabolic demands of reproduction - parental investment - genetic cuckoldry
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Sexual over perception bias leads _______ to over-infer sexual interest
Males
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What is a "post-hoc" explanation?
Have some type of observations then making a story about it
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What is a "a priori" prediction?
Have some type of theory (the way to do good science) - it's better to have that theory first then collect the data
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Naturalistic fallacy
A leap from IS to SHOULD BE
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Moralistic fallacy
A leap from SHOULD BE to IS
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